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A supermarket shelf stacker who claimed he hacked into Playboy's network in an attempt to blackmail the company was jailed for two years yesterday.

Simon Jones, 25, conned porn site bosses into believing he had access to private customer accounts. But his ruse backfired when US secret service agents and officers from the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit carried out a down raid on the house he shared with his parents in Southampton, resulting in his arrest and eventual imprisonment.

The scam began when Jones (AKA Paymaster 69) got hold of a number of Playboy user accounts and passwords. He used this information in an attempt to dupe Playboy bosses into believing he was an elite hacker who had access to their entire customer database. He threatened to flog this supposed goldmine of information unless Playboy bosses paid him hush money. Playboy's website clocks up an estimated five million hits a day.

Jones, a science graduate who has failed to realise his dreams of working in IT, sent extortion notes from a PC in his bedroom. When Playboy paid him $100 (£60) to protect two customer accounts, Jones paid the money into his bank account creating a trail of evidence that led police straight to his door.

Full Article: The Register

BWX

Ha! What an idiot!

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dpagan

i also read they also have a spot for him on the cover of "penn pals" once he gets in, in very explicit positions, his career is all but going up first play boy now this

The_Neon_Cowboy

YEP

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