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Hackers threaten to leak Ashley Madison's 37 million clients


               
2015 Jul 20, 8:05am   14,979 views  40 comments

by zzyzzx   follow (9)  

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/hackers-threaten-leak-ashley-madisons-37-million-clients-083855459--sector.html

Hackers claim to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses on dating website Ashley Madison and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site's clients unless it is shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported.

Ashley Madison's Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, confirmed the breach on its systems and said it had since secured its site and was working with law enforcement agencies to try to trace those behind the attack.

The hackers, who call themselves The Impact Team, leaked snippets of the compromised data online and warned they would release customers' real names, profiles, nude photos, credit card details and "secret sexual fantasies" unless their demands were met, Krebs said.

The hackers also demanded the closure of another of Avid Life Media's sites, sugar-daddy site "Established Men", but did not target the company's "CougarLife" site, which caters for women members looking for "a young stud".

Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair", has been planning to raise up to $200 million through an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.

The breach comes about two months after dating site Adult FriendFinder was compromised. That site has an estimated 64 million members.

The Impact Team, in a screengrab showing on the Krebs blog, say it had taken over Avid Media systems including customer databases, source code, financial records and emails.
"Shutting down AM (Ashley Madison) and EM (Established Men) will cost you, but non-compliance will cost you more," the hackers said.

They said users who had paid a fee to Avid Life to have their personal data permanently deleted had been lied to and the company had retained records, including credit card information.

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2   Vicente   2015 Jul 20, 11:29pm  

Let's just imagine there might be a few careless police officers, attorneys, judges, etc. in that database. Yep.

The Impact Team members seem likely to commit suicide. Tragic really.

3   Tenpoundbass   2015 Jul 21, 7:28am  

It's Hard to feel sorry for 37 million cheaters.

It's amazing what compromising if not incriminating information people will put on the internet.

4   Y   2015 Jul 21, 8:04am  

Ya get what ya deserve...mostly.
CaptainShuddup says

It's Hard to feel sorry for 37 million cheaters.

5   HydroCabron   2015 Jul 21, 8:07am  

Lots of companies evaluate your online history along with a credit and criminal background check. This could be interesting legally.

Good thing none of us here has an account with them!

6   HEY YOU   2015 Jul 21, 11:33am  

Waiting for elliemae to wisecrack. lol

7   Ceffer   2015 Jul 21, 11:49am  

Dipping your wick in the age of the internet and floridly psychotic feminists determined to legislate their delusionary states has become a real hazard sport. So much you can see, so little you can actually do.

Is this what the Founding Fathers intended?

8   Vicente   2015 Jul 21, 1:10pm  

Ceffer says

Is this what the Founding Fathers intended?

Which ones? Jefferson and Hamilton would have been Ashley Madison customers IMO. A few were pious prigs, but most I suspect would have had the attitude a little infidelity wasn't worth making a fuss over. Unless it was a political opponent of course.

9   Strategist   2015 Jul 21, 2:30pm  

HydroCabron says

Good thing none of us here has an account with them!

Rin has several accounts there. Poor guy, now everyone knows.

10   Heraclitusstudent   2015 Aug 18, 6:14pm  

Data stolen from Ashley Madison posted online
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ashley-madison-hackers-publish-stolen-data-to-dark-web/

Now we want to know: how many republican candidates there?

11   Strategist   2015 Aug 18, 6:38pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

Data stolen from Ashley Madison posted online

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ashley-madison-hackers-publish-stolen-data-to-dark-web/

Now we want to know: how many republican candidates there?

Where is the list? AllI see is computer jargon.
If Michelle Bachman is there I would like to sign up.

12   Heraclitusstudent   2015 Aug 18, 6:41pm  

"One analysis of email addresses found in the data dump also shows that some 15,000 are .mil. or .gov addresses. "
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/happened-hackers-posted-stolen-ashley-madison-data/

Maybe using the official mail server for that purpose.

13   Strategist   2015 Aug 18, 6:57pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

"One analysis of email addresses found in the data dump also shows that some 15,000 are .mil. or .gov addresses. "

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/happened-hackers-posted-stolen-ashley-madison-data/

Maybe using the official mail server for that purpose.

Hey.....Now I know why Hillary refused to give up her e-mails. She is cheating on Bill. How could she?

14   Strategist   2015 Aug 18, 7:01pm  

From the article:
"A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. "
Dan, Captain. Help!
What is a "Tor" browser?
Can you techies just post the list for us?
Thanks

15   RWSGFY   2015 Aug 18, 7:02pm  

The first time I saw their advert I thought that the people who think that it's good idea to register under their own names and give their cc numbers to some cheating site based on their promise to keep your identity safe are asking for the type of shit they are now in.

16   RWSGFY   2015 Aug 18, 7:03pm  

Strategist says

What is a "Tor" browser?

Google it.

17   Strategist   2015 Aug 18, 7:14pm  

Straw Man says

Strategist says

What is a "Tor" browser?

Google it.

Thanks. I did, and I like it. :)

18   Strategist   2015 Aug 18, 7:17pm  

Straw Man says

The first time I saw their advert I thought that the people who think that it's good idea to register under their own names and give their cc numbers to some cheating site based on their promise to keep your identity safe are asking for the type of shit they are now in.

If I was a divorce attorney, I would be accessing all this information and sending it to their spouses.
Business will be pretty damn good in the next few years.

20   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Aug 20, 8:25pm  

Vicente says

Which ones? Jefferson and Hamilton would have been Ashley Madison customers IMO. A few were pious prigs, but most I suspect would have had the attitude a little infidelity wasn't worth making a fuss over. Unless it was a political opponent of course.

Benjamin Franklin was a famous wick dipper, hellfire club regular, and when he was in France he was absolutely unstoppable, despite his age. Adams was a prig, though, and thought his behavior appalling.

21   Tenpoundbass   2015 Aug 20, 8:39pm  

None of this matters to at least 38 million people. I mean you can lead a country with that many cheaters.

22   zzyzzx   2015 Aug 21, 9:44am  

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/evidence-infidelities-spreads-online-wake-hack-144026220.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet connections in their federal offices to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.

The AP traced many of the accounts exposed by hackers back to federal workers. They included at least two assistant U.S. attorneys; an information technology administrator in the Executive Office of the President; a division chief, an investigator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department; a government hacker at the Homeland Security Department and another DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. counterterrorism response team.

Few actually paid for their services with their government email accounts. But AP traced their government Internet connections — logged by the website over five years — and reviewed their credit-card transactions to identify them. They included workers at more than two dozen Obama administration agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security. Others came from House or Senate computer networks.

The AP is not naming the government subscribers it found because they are not elected officials or accused of a crime.

Many federal customers appeared to use non-government email addresses with handles such as "sexlessmarriage," ''soontobesingle" or "latinlovers." Some Justice Department employees appeared to use pre-paid credit cards to help preserve their anonymity but connected to the service from their office computers.

"I was doing some things I shouldn't have been doing," a Justice Department investigator told the AP. Asked about the threat of blackmail, the investigator said if prompted he would reveal his actions to his family and employer to prevent it. "I've worked too hard all my life to be a victim of blackmail. That wouldn't happen," he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was deeply embarrassed and not authorized by the government to speak to reporters using his name.

23   dublin hillz   2015 Aug 21, 10:01am  

"Manuscripts don't burn" lol

24   zzyzzx   2015 Aug 21, 10:33am  

I wonder how many accounts Bill Clinton has on their site.

25   justme   2015 Aug 21, 10:44am  

Time for a little "I Swallowed a Red Pill" parody: Ashley Madison customers are a bunch of sissy Omegas. Real Men don't need websites to score sugarbabies. You just walk down the street like you're Donald Trump and swat off the surplus with a big stick.

27   Strategist   2015 Aug 21, 5:11pm  

zzyzzx says

I wonder how many accounts Bill Clinton has on their site.

5 more than Hillary.

28   Rin   2015 Aug 22, 4:49pm  

Vicente says

Which ones? Jefferson and Hamilton would have been Ashley Madison customers IMO. A few were pious prigs

This is not true. When confronted, Alexander Hamilton told the entire world that he was banging James Reynold's wife and enjoying himself at it.

Thus, blackmail did not work. Fortunately, Al's wife didn't divorce him.

29   Strategist   2015 Aug 22, 5:59pm  

bgamall4 says

The problem is usually with the Republicans, who run as the moral party. They have the most to lose.

I don't believe Republicans have more morals, especially Republican politicians. Claiming to have morals is the biggest con game ever.

30   Rin   2015 Aug 22, 6:40pm  

What's the matter with you people, Alexander Hamilton, yes, the guy on the $10 bill, enjoyed fucking Maria Reynolds, another man's wife.

Is there something here not being communicated?

31   Strategist   2015 Aug 22, 9:19pm  

Rin says

What's the matter with you people, Alexander Hamilton, yes, the guy on the $10 bill, enjoyed fucking Maria Reynolds, another man's wife.

Is there something here not being communicated?

Who gets to decide morals is what is not being communicated here.
As an atheist scumbag going to hell, I am supposed to have no morals, but I know I have more morals than the people who think I am going to hell.

32   Strategist   2015 Aug 22, 9:38pm  

bgamall4 says

Strategist says

bgamall4 says

The problem is usually with the Republicans, who run as the moral party. They have the most to lose.

I don't believe Republicans have more morals, especially Republican politicians. Claiming to have morals is the biggest con game ever.

Most of them are Zionists and Zionists don't have morals, so I agree with you. Zionism is not Judaism, and while it parades around as a pseudo religion, it was established by self avowed atheists.

What are morals Gary?

33   Strategist   2015 Aug 22, 9:39pm  

bgamall4 says

Most of them are Zionists and Zionists don't have morals, so I agree with you. Zionism is not Judaism, and while it parades around as a pseudo religion, it was established by self avowed atheists.

Is Judaism Zionism?

34   Rin   2015 Aug 22, 10:08pm  

Strategist says

Rin says

What's the matter with you people, Alexander Hamilton, yes, the guy on the $10 bill, enjoyed fucking Maria Reynolds, another man's wife.

Is there something here not being communicated?

Who gets to decide morals is what is not being communicated here.

Who's talking about morals? The only reason why I wouldn't bone someone else's wife, even if I were the late great Alexander Hamilton, is that one can do the deed at a Nevada ranch w/o getting the husband into some blackmailing scheme.

Remember, Governor Ventura was a patron of the BunnyRanch near Carson City.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-08-22/news/9908220084_1_jesse-ventura-brothel-jesse-s-career

Yes, I know, Nevada wasn't one of the original colonies during the Revolutionary time period but that's not the point.

35   Strategist   2015 Aug 22, 10:17pm  

Rin says

Remember, Governor Ventura was a patron of the BunnyRanch near Carson City.

he he he. Damn politicians.

36   Ceffer   2015 Aug 22, 10:34pm  

I guess the word is that Ashley Madison is like the other sites: 90 to 95 percent men and 5 to 10 percent women aka hookers.

Ashley Madison paid women to make up fake female profiles to put on the site to make men think that there were more interested females than there were.

38   zzyzzx   2015 Aug 24, 6:53am  

Strategist says

What surprises me is the well known politicians, celebrities, rich and famous, revealing their names and personal information to a site like "Ashley Madison"

Especially when they don't need a website to cheat.

39   zzyzzx   2015 Aug 26, 9:10am  

http://perezhilton.com/2015-08-25-joe-biden-hunter-biden-ashley-madison-account-deny#.Vd3kmVL9y6c

Joe Biden's Son Linked To An Ashley Madison Account!

Joe Biden's son has been named in the Ashley Madison leak! The Vice President's son, Hunter, has been connected to an email address that was dug up in the wake of the cheating website's hack!

40   Ceffer   2016 Jun 19, 7:52pm  

I couldn't find my Ashley Madison profile labelled "Nine Inches Folded in Half" at all. Those hackers are incompetent.

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