Porn Site Breached In Penetrate Attack

Hackers affirm to have stolen the sum of more than 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground.

The information includes user names, email addresses and passwords. Also taken were the numbers, expiry dates and safety codes for 40,000 credit cards.

The assault is the second successful crack of a site run by website administration firm Manwin.

A formerly different hacker organisation called The Consortium mentioned it was at the back the attack.

While Manwin investigates, the Digital Playground site has been left online but is not accepting new members and its members area has been taken offline.

The Consortium posted a few of the information it stole on the web and mentioned safety on the site was full of holes that "made it too tempting to resist" hidden the data.

"This firm has security, that if you didn't know it was a actual business, you would have think to be a fun - a fun that you found ample more comical than they will," wrote The Consortium in a record posted on the web.

Visible in the record were admin login names and passwords together with a preference of the email addresses and user names of a few members. Internal emails, sum of the 4 servers underpinning the site and program looseness keys were moreover posted.

The Consortium claims a few of the credit card information was stored in solid content form. The organisation claims to be related to the Anonymous and Lulzsec hacker groups.

Porn writer Digital Playground is formed in California but its website is managed and run by Canadian firm Manwin. The London office of the firm declined to criticism on the attack.

In a matter supposing to porn attention headlines site AVN, Manwin mentioned it took over administration of the site on 1 Mar and mentioned the crack might have occurred before it took charge.

Manwin administration was overseeing the scrutiny and Digital Playground subscribers had been contacted to let them know what had happened.

In late February, sum of more than 6,000 users of YouPorn's deliberation forums, well known as YP Chat, were stolen. YP Chat is moreover administered by Manwin. Lax safety at a third-party provider was blamed is to breach.