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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/onlin...on-hacked/

I believe most RVFers have heard of the Ashley Madison before, it's basically a dating site for married individuals to cheat in secret with minimal repercussions.

The hackers appear to have quite a personal vendetta. The site claimed that users paying a fee would have all of their data wiped from the server. In reality the company must have not followed through on that promise, because the hackers are pissed. They have serious demands that the site must stay down. Non-compliance will result in very personal information to be open to the public.

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The data released by the hacker or hackers — which go by the name The Impact Team — includes sensitive internal data stolen from Avid Life Media (ALM), the Toronto-based firm that owns AshleyMadison as well as related hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men.

Reached by KrebsOnSecurity late Sunday evening, ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property. Indeed, in the short span of 30 minutes between that brief interview and the publication of this story, several of the Impact Team’s Web links were no longer responding.

“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”

Besides snippets of account data apparently sampled at random from among some 40 million users across ALM’s trio of properties, the hackers leaked maps of internal company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information.

The compromise comes less than two months after intruders stole and leaked online user data on millions of online hookup site AdultFriendFinder.

In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee.

According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.

“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”

Their demands continue:

“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online.”

I know these data breaches happen often in the internet era, but I thought this case was interesting as it could have huge ramifications if hundreds of thousands of cheaters are instantly exposed. Particularly if there are famous people that use the site.

[Honorable Man]

[philosophical_recovery]

Let this be a lesson in your own online personal security, even if you don't use these sites.

The details you put out there can come back to haunt you some day.

[Paracelsus]

Any link to the leaked data?

EDIT: Never mind, I'll go looking on Google.

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(07-20-2015 12:16 AM)Paracelsus Wrote:  

Any link to the leaked data?

They haven't leaked anything yet. If Ashley Madison does not comply with their demands, then the data will be leaked.

[iop890]

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as well as related hookup sites Cougar Life

Meanwhile at CattleRustler's apartment:

[samsamsam]

This will be interesting.

[Foolsgo1d]

I foresee a lot of doomed marriages and possible murders.

[iamdegaussed]

This is hilarious. If what they're saying is true, Ashley Madison is doomed. Either they are forced to shut down, or the hackers publish the information and they get sued into oblivion.

Also poor Cattle Rustler.

[Eskhander]

Companies that pay data ransoms survive.
Ones that don't do not.

Keep that in mind if you ever find your business at the mercy of a hacker.

[Parlay44]

I don't don't why hackers are targeting this site. They're usually antigovernment or anti big brother.

Indian hackers however have done some pathetic SJW tactics before like messaging girls about cheating boyfriends. That shit annoys me to no end.

[vinman]

(07-20-2015 06:26 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:  

I don't don't why hackers are targeting this site. They're usually antigovernment or anti big brother.

Indian hackers however have done some pathetic SJW tactics before like messaging girls about cheating boyfriends. That shit annoys me to no end.

$$$$$$ Is why they're doing it?

[samsamsam]

This is gonna be one crazy shit storm.

I mean if the company pays what keeps the guys from not releasing the info anyway? I mean is there some special third party that makes sure it doesn't happen after they get paid?

And this is right after Ashley Madison was featured on that HBO series "Sex Now/" which made it seem so simple and perfect. I bet membership went up after that episode.

[ThrustMaster]

Bet there are thousands of accounts being shut down...

[TravelerKai]

(07-20-2015 06:48 AM)vinman Wrote:  

(07-20-2015 06:26 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:  

I don't don't why hackers are targeting this site. They're usually antigovernment or anti big brother.

Indian hackers however have done some pathetic SJW tactics before like messaging girls about cheating boyfriends. That shit annoys me to no end.

$$$$$$ Is why they're doing it?

Almost all hacking is for money. It stopped being solely for non-financial gain in the mid 2000s. Hacking for SJW or political causes is collectively catagorized as Hacktivism, in the security community.

My guess is Russian hackers look to extort.

[ThrustMaster]

BOOM!

[samsamsam]

(07-20-2015 08:18 AM)ThrustMaster Wrote:  

Bet there are thousands of accounts being shut down...

Too late now I imagine.

Can't wait for the divorce ads on buses and billboards. "Did you know that Ashley Madison was hacked? Contact us and we will check to see if your spouse cheated and then we can get the paperwork going."

[FlyBoy]

(07-20-2015 06:48 AM)vinman Wrote:  

(07-20-2015 06:26 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:  

I don't don't why hackers are targeting this site. They're usually antigovernment or anti big brother.

Indian hackers however have done some pathetic SJW tactics before like messaging girls about cheating boyfriends. That shit annoys me to no end.

$$$$$$ Is why they're doing it?

What if they were a bunch of betas who are sick and tired of seeing everyone, even the married ones, getting some.

[ThrustMaster]

All metadata, frankly it'll just thin the herd and reduce the response levels for chicks from 200+ messages an hour to 125...

[MKDAWUSS]

They should take the ransom and once everything's processed leak it all out anyway.

[zombiejimmorrison]

I imagine the people who are leaking this information are headed by this great man

[kaotic]

Holy shit this is going to be interesting, the motive has to be money.

Can you imagine an easily accessible search to find out if your spouse has been cheating or not.

It's a double edged sword, if you're cheating, you might get fucked. If you're seeing if your girl is cheating, you'll get divorced raped.

[Rawmeo]

Getting some popcorn while watching this.

[carbassboy]

I would pay money to make sure the hackers release all the information. I want to see all the cheaters that get caught.

[Vacancier Permanent]

Never was a fan of this shitty site. Promoting cheating while being married is part of the whole game plan the Leftists have to destroy anything and everything that has to do with traditions with marriage between a man and a woman and the Family at the very top of that list.

Oh and not surprised at all that such a shitty site had to originate from a Leftist paradise aka Toronto. What a shitty city in way more ways than one could count!

Only in a morally bankrupt society as in NA, could a site openly promoting cheating during marriage, one of THE most sacred pillars of Society since the dawn of Time, start and take off.

Absolutely no sympathy for anyone involved with this shitty site, whether it be the cheaters or the ones running it.

Serves those social vultures right.