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Hackers have got all of online adultery site Ashley Madison's data


Hackers styling themselves “The Impact Team” are threatening to put it all out there unless parent company Avid Life Media shuts the site down.

There’s trouble brewing for 37 million would-be adulterers Monday after cheating site Ashley Madison (motto: “Life is short. Have an affair”) fell victim to hackers who claim to have captured the personal information of all its users.

According to the blog Krebsonsecurity.com, the group behind the attack, which calls itself “The Impact Team”, has threatened Avid Life Media, the company behind Ashley Madison, to take it down permanently along with its sister site Establishedmen.com. If it doesn’t, the hackers threaten to publish the whole data dump a little at a time, including users’ real names, credit card numbers and sexual fantasies. (Oddly, it seems to have allowed Cougarlife.com, a site for hooking up older women with “young studs”, to carry on unmolested.)

“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,” the hackers said in a manifesto. “Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver. We’ve got the complete set of profiles in our (database) dumps, and we’ll release them soon if Ashley Madison stays online. And with over 37 million members, mostly from the U.S. and Canada, a significant percentage of the population is about to have a very bad day, including many rich and powerful people.”

The threatened release of the information would expose ALM to legal action from users whose privacy it had promised to defend, the hackers claimed.

The hackers said they had acted to punish ALM for ‘lying’ about its ‘full delete’ service, which charges a $19 fee for deleting not only users’ personal details, but also any messages and images sent to other members.

ALM chief executive Noel Biderman confirmed the leak to Krebsonsecurity. Biderman suggested that the incident might be traceable to someone who had had legitimate access to the company’s data in the past.

““We’re on the doorstep of [confirming] who we believe is the culprit, and unfortunately that may have triggered this mass publication,” Biderman told Krebsonsecurity. “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.”

In a statement later, Avid Life said it had engaged one of the world’s top IT security firms to mitigate the attack. It said it had removed the posts relating to the attack, as well as all Personally Identifiable Information about its users that had been published online.

“Our team of forensics experts and security professionals, in addition to law enforcement, are continuing to investigate this incident,” the company said.

The attack, which comes only weeks after a similar breach at the operator of Adulfriendfinder.com, appears to have done for any reasonable chance of ALM conducting the $200 million initial public offering that it had planned in London for later this year.

Thought of this last night.

How many guys are shatting razor blades wondering if their account is going public?

These are the guys that haven't posted in the last couple days since they are shatting razor blades.

Of course, once all their data is out, they get to sue Ashley for dropping the ball on security.

Good times ahead...

Good times.

The most interesting aspect of this story is that people today are so fugking helpless, and so fugking stupid, they require assistance with having an affair.

JFC. Walk down to the bar, fugk something, and walk back. It's not complicated.




Dave

Too funny.

I'm going to mix the Tinder app with JDate and call it Jinder.

New service:

For $5,000, I'll admit to your wife I hacked your info and opened an account in your name.

“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,”

If It's just men, then is this just internet prostitution, as in where do women come in?

Kent

maybe it will be renamed to "Your wife gets half.com"

37 million members out of a total population of a little over 300 million. Leave out the kiddo's and the blue-hairs, that's something like 1 in 6 adults in this country.

That's quite.....

Although the best part is that they also own ChristianMingle.com. That cracks me up.

How come I always learn about these site's once it's too late? Dang. Just dang!

Off to the bar as was suggested earlier.

But, but.............when do they get to change their Facebook status, and send their Instagram photos?

Today's helpless fools can't take a crap without being plugged into social media. Their ability to meet actual people, FTF without an iPhone holding their hand is a skillset they don't have.

Why do African safaris come to mind.............

You can bet your ass that the FBI will be all over this one.

beds mostly, but occasionally soccer nets.

J. Edgar would be proud..............

Too fugking funny.

But I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of their paying customers are chicks.




Dave

Go to plenty of fish.com.

You'll have an STD before lunch. Promise.




Dave

I still cringe when I hear them advertising on the radio.

Interesting how the men are 'cheaters' but the women must be only frustrated.

Kent