Hackers claim to have made good on their threat to release data they stole in a breach last month of the company behind Ashley Madison, the online dating website aimed at people hoping to cheat on their spouses.
On Tuesday , the group dumped 9.7 gigabytes worth of stolen user account and payment information online. The data included login details, email addresses, payment transaction details and encrypted passwords for members of Ashley Madison and Established Men, another site that markets to women looking to date rich men. Both sites are owned by Avid Life Media, as is Cougar Life, a third site that was also breached.
A group of hackers named Impact Team took responsibility for the breach last month if Avid Life Media did not immediately shut the site down.The hackers also complained that the company charged a $19 fee to members to scrub their profiles from the site, but continued to keep their data on its servers.
Avid Life Media said last month it had adjusted its policy for deleting user data, but continued to operate Ashley Madison, which maintained data of 40 million users. In an post on Tuesday , captioned “Time's Up!“, the hackers said they were releasing Avid Life Media's data because the company had not met their demands. “We have explained the fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM and their members,“ hackers wrote.The hackers accused the service of overstating the number of females on its site. “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,“ they added.
ALM said its investigation into the breach on its systems was on and it was cooperating with law enforcement agencies in Canada and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States. “This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality ,“ the company said.
source:TOI
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