Hackers Threaten to Expose 37 Million Cheating AshleyMadison Users

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AshleyMadison—tagline “Life Is Short. Have An Affair”—is an online site that facilitates cheating among its 37 million users. It’s a service founded on confidentiality and privacy, which now seems to have all of its data in the hands of hackers. They’re demanding the company take down the site, or they’re going to out a lot of adulterers.

The hackers, going by the name “The Impact Team,” posted a small sample of sensitive data (since taken offline) stolen from Avid Life Media, the company that owns AshleyMadison, along with other hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men. The data was accompanied by a statement, demanding the takedown of AshleyMadison and Established Men. If that doesn’t happen, the hackers are threatening to leak the full details—names, addresses, sexual fantasies—of AshleyMadison’s 37 million users.

Speaking to security blog KrebsOnSecurity, ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, condemned the “criminal act,” and said the company was working hard to have the data taken down.

The Impact Team’s beef with Avid seems to lie with the Full Delete feature offered by AshleyMadison—a $19 service that allows users of the site to erase their profile, and all accompanying information. According to The Impact Team, that service is a lie—it claims that although profile information is removed, credit card details, including real name and billing address—remain online.

That frames the hackers as the good guys, campaigning against a lying company; of course, a trove of personal information, including credit card details, can be worth serious money to the right people.

It goes without saying that this is about the worst data leak imaginable—not only does it have the usual problems of identity fraud, but if the full list of AshleyMadison’s users hits the internet, that’s a lot of adulterers outed.
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http://gizmodo.com/hackers-threaten-to-expose-40-million-cheating-ashleyma-1718965334

:rofl: these cheaters gonna get exposed
 
Is this site actually legit?
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The way they called out the CTO. Wow. Doesn't make it right but they definitely didn't do right by their customers charging that $19 fee and not doing a real scrub. Even if it was only receipt of the $19 transaction, that should have been deleted after payment cleared. Your biggest selling point is anonymity. After the other site was hacked previously, they should have been more cautious. Inside job or not, going to be interesting to see what comes of tihs. 
 
CrazyDav0 said:
The way they called out the CTO. Wow. Doesn't make it right but they definitely didn't do right by their customers charging that $19 fee and not doing a real scrub. Even if it was only receipt of the $19 transaction, that should have been deleted after payment cleared. Your biggest selling point is anonymity. After the other site was hacked previously, they should have been more cautious. Inside job or not, going to be interesting to see what comes of tihs. 
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Yeah their site just lost all credibility even if the hackers don't release the info. Their business is done.
 
that "full delete" option netted them $1.7M in 2014 alone

this was the statement released by the hackers
“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.”
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These hackers are fools. They're doing this because the site doesn't delete the info of their users like they claim so they'll publicly release people's credit card info and nude pics. How about they delete everything instead of releasing people's private stuff or just mind their damn business.
 
shogun said:
These hackers are fools. They're doing this because the site doesn't delete the info of their users like they claim so they'll publicly release people's credit card info and nude pics. How about they delete everything instead of releasing people's private stuff or just mind their damn business.
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How about they not... cheat?
 
And 37 million users??? Lets assume 20 Million are from the USA. That's a big chunk of our adult population :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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