A group of hackers has announced they’ve dipped into the personal info of 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground, tapping usernames, email addresses and passwords, as well as credit card information for 40,000 cards. Subscribers have been notified of the breach, and the site isn’t accepting new members.
According to BBC News, the group posted some of the details lifted from the site, including login names and passwords and some email addresses of members. Digital Playground is based in California but the site is run out of Luxembourg by a company called Manwin.
Manwin took over on March 1, but claim the breach could have occurred before that time.
Just last month, YouPorn’s discussion forums called YP Chat (which is a separate entity) also suffered a breach of information for over 6,000 of its users. YouPorn is also administered by Manwin but a third-party was blamed for that security snafu.
Porn site breached in hack attack [BBC News]
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+1 to the puppet exploring the evil depths of the interwebs.
Good Advice: use private browsing, and an encrypted VPN when viewing or DLing porn.
Who in this world pays for porn? It’s readily available for free and the average visit is only 12 minutes long to any given site!
12 minutes, are you actually watching the entire video or skipping to the good parts? Thank you broadband!!!!
Did kaptainkk’s joke make a ‘wooshing’ sound as it flew over your head?
Maybe Jchamberlain watches those … er … videos so often it’ll take him/her more than 12 minutes to take care of the reason to watch it, if you get the drift %]~~~
“Who in this world pays for porn?”
People who are able to distinguish good porn from bad.
While ignoring that such is completely subjective.
Even if it is truly subjective, those who are able to hold the opinion “I like X but don’t like Y” are going to be the ones who will pay for X in spite of being able to get Y for free.
Every married man on this planet who has a financially dependent wife with a kinky side?
dear idiots,
stop registering/paying for porn.
love,
common sense.
If there aren’t idiots paying for it, they won’t produce it. We need idiots to make it free for the rest of us.
Clicks and ad space pay for it. Same business model as this site really.
Nothing says “I exercise shitty judgement” quite like paying for porn on the internet.
“Subscribers have been notified of the breach, and the site isn’t accept(ing) new members.”
Leave it to the porn industry to show others how to behave ethically.
Getting lost in the fact it’s a porn site that’s been breached, it’s always a good idea to change internet/email passwords every so often.
lol the members are probably all senators etc. Who else would be dumb and rich enough to pay for porn?
Senators pay for porn?
And here I thought they skipped the middle ground and went right for the hookers.
Senators pay for porn?
Yes. And most of it is gay.
This is just wrong. A man’s got a right to some privacy regarding his porn subscriptions!
I say man, because we ladies obviously never look at such filth.
You’re too busy starring in it to watch it, eh?
Girls also watch erotic material (I should know since I was the last I checked). Hm, there are websites out there that offer free content at the cost of tracking cookies and such. The majority of premium erotic websites offer very little.
Since it will be extremely hard on subscribers to explain how their credit card was penetrated by hackers, stiff penalties are in order.
Is a “I see what you did there” reply in order?
these hackers really exploited all the holes in the system
Most of what I would say has already been said here.
So, where the heck is that video camera? I’m home early!
2012.
Paying for porn.
I seriously hope you guys don’t do this.
Okay, I’ll play you guy’s silly game….where’s all this free porn everyone is referring to?
redacted.com
http://www.spankwire.com
More republicans outed.
Yeah, right.
Republicans pay for porn while Democrats Cyber-Stalk Federal Prosecutors.
Somebody’s really screwed now.
Reminds me of my IT friend’s facebook posts recently: “If you have a company laptop, please do not download porn, get viruses, then complain that your computer isn’t working.”
This is why I steal my porn from the newsgroups. Just like sex, only a loser would pay for their porn.
A little brown chicken brown cow, goes a long way on the internet.
This is precisely why I make my own porn at home…
/didIsaythatorjustthinkit
Doktor Coktor.