Hackers Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data

[Straight Shooter]

Stolen data from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating site includes approximately 10,000 email addresses belonging to government officials or workers with .gov addresses. The Daily Beast reviewed the files and found accounts linked to the email addresses of members of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as numerous officials from the Australian and British governments. The Daily Beast, however, cannot verify the authenticity of the accounts yet.

The data dump included 36 million email addresses for 33 million accounts, along with user names, first and last names, the last four digits of credit cards, personal IP addresses, street addresses, and phone numbers for a large number of them. In total, the hackers released 10GB of compressed data—a staggeringly large amount.

On Tuesday night, Ashley Madison’s chief technology officer, Raja Bhatia, gave an interview to tech blogger Brian Krebs claiming there’s no evidence that the data dump is the real deal—a murky stance the company has been trying to sell since the hack was revealed last month. But The Daily Beast managed to make contact with six of the names on the list who confirmed their identities.

The leak not only included user data but also internal company documents pertaining to Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media, including Ashley Madison execs’ PayPal accounts, corporate passwords, company memos, loan agreements, a list of banks (with corresponding account numbers), office seating charts, and an internal document titled “areas of concern—customer data” that outlined how ALM was worried about “data leak/theft issues” and “system integrity,” such as a “web app remote code exploit in our codebase resulting in a man-in-the-middle attack where a hacker gains access to our customer’s billing/credit card information.”

The breadth of the internal files, along with the confirmed identities of several of the names included in the hacked data released online, strongly suggests that the data is legitimate, and that a hacking collective that calls itself the Impact Team has indeed carried out a full-scale hack on Ashley Madison the likes of which we haven’t seen since last year’s Sony hack.

While ALM and Ashley Madison have been tight-lipped about the suspected source of the breach, ALM chief executive Noel Biderman told Krebs last month that he suspected it was the work of a current or former employee.

“We’re on the doorstep of [confirming] who we believe is the culprit, and unfortunately that may have triggered this mass publication,” Biderman told Krebs. “I’ve got their profile right in front of me, all their work credentials. It was definitely a person here that was not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services.”

Back on July 15, tech blogger Brian Krebs revealed that a hacking collective calling itself Impact Team had “completely compromised” adultery website AshleyMadison.com’s user databases, financial records, and more. According to Impact Team, one of the reasons they targeted Ashley Madison is because of its “full delete” feature—where, for the price of $20, the site said it would completely wipe all of the user’s data. The hackers claimed that this function, which allegedly netted Ashley Madison’s parent company ALM $1.7 million in revenue in 2014, was “a complete lie,” and that user data remained on their database.

Well, it looks like the hackers have been proven correct. On Tuesday evening, Impact Team released all of the hacked Ashley Madison data online, along with a message:

“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data. Find someone you know in here? Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters. Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.”
In the meantime, there are still millions of names and corresponding email addresses to sift through, including “many rich and powerful people,” according to Impact Team. Stay tuned.

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How stupid do you have to be to sign up with your .gov or .mil email address? Honestly the stupidity never ceases to amaze me

 

[Supafly]

I used to work for an ISP... I have witnessed so many stupid shit people do over the internet, very little surprises me anymore.

But doing stuff like that with government mail adresses is in the top field!

 

[knowone]

How stupid do you have to be to sig...il account that would cover these activities.

 

[BusterLoads]

Hackers Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data

Well now, things should be interesting in the media for the next 2-3 days.

 

[BusterLoads]

 

[MMMariah]

They are a great company. I did some video ads for them a few years ago they flew me to Toronto and treated me very well. Very professional people. It sucks that this happened but if you're signing up on a site to cheat on your spouse, all bets are off.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

Sadly, not every member was a cheater. Some people were in opened relationships or into the swing lifestyle. I guess these hackers assumed everyone who joined was scum as per their posts.

Generalizations are dangerous!

 

[zdenka]

sorting through the database for the last 24 hrs; the credit card info, and yet to find a single Asian name. Seemingly lots of blacks (probably), and Cockasian names mostly 'cause they're big dick cheating bastards.

 

[BusterLoads]

I had a membership to Ashley Madison many years ago but I wasn't cheating on anyone. I was single just looking to fuck married chicks.

 

[knowone]

What gets be mad and others is they charged people extra money to delete their account and then didn't to it!!!

 

[Lacey Black]

Sadly, not every member was a cheater. Some people were in opened relationships or into the swing lifestyle. I guess these hackers assumed everyone who joined was scum as per their posts.

Generalizations are dangerous!

This. Also cheating isn't a crime, and even if it was one crime doesn't justify another.

 

[BusterLoads]

These guys bring up some good points.

And something that hasn't been discussed within the realm of cheating. I never really understood why people hated this website so much. Way more people use facebook to cheat than they ever used A.M. A.M. just found a way to make money off it.

 

[knowone]

This. Also cheating isn't a crime, and even if it was one crime doesn't justify another.

It seems to me growing up in the 50s & 60s it used to be in some states, and you could also be sued by the spouse.

 

[Anonyne#017]

I think it's a pretty bold move to actually use some real name and government emails to participate in a such filth...

I had a membership to Ashley Madison many years ago but I wasn't cheating on anyone. I was single just looking to fuck married chicks.

How do you differ situation where a single wants to fuck married person over married person going to fuck a single?

Would you "date" such a person, in case such a woman said that she does not like her husband anymore and wants to have your babies instead?

This. Also cheating isn't a crime, and even if it was one crime doesn't justify another.

Do you consider psychical violence acceptable with a selective criteria for personal benefit? Do you see anything hypocritical in participating cheating and not wanted to get cheated?

I take, people get what they ask for... and I do not defend anyone asking to get beaten...

Do you want to know a funny fact? Here in my country downloading free porn and any content from internet is completely "legal". Prostitution is legal too, with certain limitations...

 

[BusterLoads]

How do you differ situation where a single wants to fuck married person over married person going to fuck a single?

Would you "date" such a person, in case such a woman said that she does not like her husband anymore and wants to have your babies instead?

For the first question: the responsibility of remaining faithful does not lie with the single person. It lies solely with the person in the relationship. And if she didn't care enough to remain faithful to her husband, I certainly didn't care about fucking her behind his back. For the record though, I never did meet up with anyone from that site. But I'm also not shying away from my intentions about being there.

For the second question: to give you the short answer, hell no I would never date a woman that cheated on her husband. I'd probably laugh in her face if she brought up the idea. But more importantly, why are you bringing up dating? No one is talking about dating or having kids or any of that shit. It's all about fucking. At least it was for me.