AshleyMadison — tagline “ Life Is Short . Have An Affair”—is an on-line site that ease cheating among its 37 million users . It ’s a avail founded on confidentiality and secrecy , which now seems to have all of its data point in the hands of hackers . They ’re demanding the company take down the site , or they ’re going to out a slew of fornicator .
The hackers , go by the name “ The Impact Team , ” posted a small sample of sore data point ( since contract offline ) stolen from Avid Life Media , the companionship that possess AshleyMadison , along with other assemblage sites Cougar Life and Established Men . The data was play along by a statement , necessitate the takedown of AshleyMadison and Established Men . If that does n’t find , the hackers are threatening to leak the full details — name , addresses , sexual fantasy — of AshleyMadison ’s 37 million substance abuser .
Speaking to security system blogKrebsOnSecurity , ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack , doom the “ reprehensible act , ” and said the troupe was working intemperately to have the data taken down .
Impact Team message , via KrebsOnSecurity
The Impact Team ’s beef with Avid seems to lie with the Full Delete feature offer by AshleyMadison — a $ 19 table service that allows drug user of the situation to rub out their profile , and all play along information . According to The Impact Team , that serve is a prevarication — it claim that although visibility entropy is remove , credit card details , include real name and billing address — remain on-line .
That frames the hackers as the unspoilt bozo , agitate against a lying company ; of course , a treasure trove of personal information , let in acknowledgment carte du jour details , can be deserving serious money to the right-hand people .
It goes without say that this is about the risky data passing water imaginable — not only does it have the common problems of identity fraud , but if the full listing of AshleyMadison ’s drug user tally the internet , that ’s a lot of adulterers outed .
[ KrebsOnSecurity ]
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