Hacker exposes 40,000 Credit Cards from Digital Playground





The Consortium" claim to have broken into the servers of DigitalPlayground.com last weekend and stolen 72,000 usernames and passwords and 40,000 credit-card numbers. A new hacking group called The Consortium has hit the scene and their first take down is the porn site Digital Playground deface it and Mirror is available here . Everything, including credit card information, was stored in plain text. "" claim to have broken into the servers of DigitalPlayground.com last weekend and stolen 72,000 usernames and passwords and 40,000 credit-card numbers.





In addition to the theft of credit card numbers, the hackers also claim that they made off with the personal information of 72,000 other users. This the second large hacking attack on a porn website in the last several months. Previously a site called YouPorn was attacked.

The Consortium, which claims affiliation to hacktivist group Anonymous, claims the Digital playground site was so riddled with security holes that it acted as a irresistable target. " We did not set out to destroy them but they made it too enticing to resist, " the group said in a statement posted online. " So now our humble crew leave lulz and mayhem in our path. "





All of the 100 user passwords given as examples were in plaintext, not encrypted as security best practices demand. Even worse, the hackers claim that all credit-card numbers and card security codes were as well, though large parts of the two numbers used as examples were blacked out.





Last month, a teenage hacker broke into Brazzers, the hardcore porn portal, before making off with hundreds of thousands of user login details. Brazzers admitted the breach but stressed that no credit card data had been exposed.



