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To: maried. who wrote (204351)	11/21/2001 10:44:51 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

Playboy.com Web site hacked Tuesday November 20, 6:42 pm Eastern Time SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials are investigating a security breach at the Playboy.com Web site that allowed a computer hacker to steal customers' credit card numbers, a Playboy.com spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The company was alerted to the problem this weekend after network administrators noticed a lot of unusual activity on their servers, Playboy.com spokeswoman Laura Sigman said. Playboy.com is trying to determine how many customers have been affected and has hired a computer security firm to audit the systems, she said. In a letter to customers, Playboy.com President Larry Lux urged people to contact their credit card companies to determine if their cards have been used for any unauthorized purchases. ``Unfortunately, Playboy is only one of a number of high-profile companies who have been subjected to this kind of malicious hacking,'' Lux said. Someone belonging to a group called ``ingreslock 1524'' and using the alias ``martyn luther ping'' e-mailed a letter to customers claiming responsibility for the crime and provided the customer's name and credit card number as proof. The letter said the ``shady hacker group'' has had full access to the Playboy.com network since 1998. ``We did have some very big plans to use the hundreds of thousands of customer details'' to purchase products from numerous online companies, ``thus resulting in over $10 million worth of fraud claims being made to credit card and, in turn, insurance companies globally,'' the letter said. The e-mail also listed a number of warnings for online customers and companies, including ``do not trust companies with your details online.'' Playboy.com, which is based in New York, is part of Playboy Enterprises. biz.yahoo.com * * *