Information Security News: Playboy Makes Changes to be Less Exposed to Hacker Attack

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By: Scott Hovanyetz
Senior Reporter
scotth () dmnews com
Nov. 27, 2001

Playboy Enterprises Inc. has made internal changes and is cooperating
with authorities after a hacker attack that led to the exposure of
some of its customers' credit card numbers, a company spokeswoman said
yesterday.

Spokeswoman Laura Sigman said the company was unable to reveal the
nature of the internal changes. Law enforcement officials are still
investigating, she said.

Last week, Playboy.com issued an e-mail to its customers alerting them
about the electronic break-in and encouraging them to report
unauthorized charges on their credit cards to authorities. The hacker,
claiming to have broken into Playboy.com, had begun e-mailing
Playboy.com customers the night of Nov. 18 and included the customers'
credit card numbers in the e-mail.

The sender of the e-mail to Playboy.com customers claimed that the
break-in would result in $10 million or more in fraud claims and that
he or she planned to test Playboy.com's security again. However,
Playboy has no evidence that any of its customers have found
unauthorized charges on their credit cards or that another intrusion
has occurred, Sigman said.




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