please log in to view this image Ashley Madison infidelity site's customer data 'leaked' please log in to view this image The website promises to connect married people seeking an affair Customer data stolen from Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who wish to cheat on their spouse, has reportedly been published. The data has reportedly been leaked on the so called dark web, meaning it is accessible only via encrypted browsers. The BBC did not access the data and has not verified its authenticity. Hackers stole the data last month and threatened to reveal it unless the match making site for married people was taken down. Technology website Wired said 9.7 gigabytes of data was posted, and the material appeared to include members accounts and credit card details. The hackers, who called themselves the Impact Team, said they had managed to steal the real names and addresses of the site's users, including those who had previously paid to "delete" their accounts. Small pieces of the data had already been leaked in July. "Act of criminality" In a statement, Canada-based Avid Life Media, the company behind Ashley Madison said it had "now learned that the individual or individuals responsible for this attack claim to have released more of the stolen data". Describing the hack as "an act of criminality", the company said it was fully cooperating with law enforcement to find the hackers. "The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world," the statement said. Security blogger Brian Krebs said that the leak appeared to be real. "I've now spoken with three vouched sources who all have reported finding their information and last four digits of their credit card numbers in the leaked database," he wrote. "Also, it occurs to me that it's been almost exactly 30 days since the original hack." Another security consultant noted that Avid Life Media had used the bcrypt encryption standard to scramble users' passwords. "Bcrypt is one of the more modern ways to make it harder for people to reverse engineer passwords - it's not impossible but it would take a hacker much longer to work out what they are," Alan Woodward told the BBC. Even so, the release of the unencrypted email addresses means users may be targeted by spammers and scammers. Ashley Madison says it operates in more than 50 countries and has 37 million users, more than a million of whom live in the UK. It promotes its service with the tagline, "Life is short, have an affair".
Good job @Red Hadron Collider isn't married or the world would know about his German granny fetish... Oh wait... We already do.
SNP MP finds her name on Ashley Madison list: Married politician is horrified after her email address is published by hackers in massive data file revealing 37 million users of adultery website Ashley Madison has 37m members around the world including 1.2m Brits Includes 124 civil servants, 92 MOD staff and 56 NHS workers Email address can be used without verification leading to malicious cases Michelle Thomson, the MP for Edinburgh West, says she is victim of smear Files include names, addresses, phone numbers and credit card details Data dump also has their sexual fantasies, ideal partner and profile photo Owners describe hack as 'act of criminality' and have called in the FBI please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
To be fair, hackers should be battered to death by law. While everyone on that site is a ****, I don't like the fact hackers can dictate what's right or wrong so I propose a law is passed that legalises the battering of them, til the death.
I wonder whether we're going to get famous names from this forum like: Tobes Gerrez, RHC luvgonzo. Who knows???.
Why go after ppl who are fcking around? Yeh it's wrong what those ppl are doing but it's their lives. If you're going to go after anyone, go after corrupt governments or arms dealers (or members of the BNP like they did before)
