Team Impact is back. According to Vice, the team of hackers who revealed the secrets of 37 million members of Ashley Madison website has published new documents. A huge collection of 20 GB * including various archives … Two times greater than the first. We still do not know what they contain, but it is suspected that these internal data to the company.
One of them wears at all If a very evocative name: “noel.biderman.mail.7z”. It is likely whether based emails data Noel Biderman, the Canadian owner of Avid Life Media. The message included with this dump is also addressed directly to it:
“Christmas Hey, you can admit it’s true, now”
A terse message that refers to Biderman had doubts expressed as to the veracity of the data published before yesterday by pirates.
* We originally indicated 10 GB, it is actually an archive of 20 GB. The article and the title has been changed accordingly.
First published 20/08
Ashley Madison: the hack that exposes the secrets of the 37 million people infidels
Game Over for Ashley Madison: Team impact of hackers, who announced in July to have hacked the site, come to deliver a phenomenal amount of data, including coordinated and sexual preferences of millions of users.
It is time the big unpacking. A month after announcing hacking Ashley Madison, the most important site for extramarital dating world, The Impact Team hackers have delivered a “dump” giant of more than 10 GB on the darkweb. It contains the personal data of some 37 million customers of the site, precise enough to give them a cold sweat. The files reveal indeed tons of e-mail addresses, phone numbers, bank data-without the full number of credit card, however …
They also contain intimate preferences and fantasies Member, informed during registration to the site. And to complete the picture, Team Impact also published confidential information about Avid Life Media, the company that publishes the website, including financial data, employee salaries …
” Time is up, “ said Team Impact in a short statement accompanying their dump. As follows:
“Avid Life Media has neither closed nor Ashley Madison Established Men (another site group, Ed). We described the fraud, deception and stupidity ALM and its members. Now everyone can see their data.
You found someone you know? Keep in mind that this site is a scam, it is filled with thousands of fake female profiles [...] From 90-95% of users are male. There are chances that your spouse has joined the largest site of adultery world, but he never had any connection. He just tried. If this distinction has importance.
You are in the database? It’s ALM who betrayed you and lied to you. Make them a lawsuit and claim compensation. Learn the lesson and repair your wrongs. It’s embarrassing, but one day you will go on. “
That being said. Ashley Madison, which ironically French site still displays the slogan: “ Over 38,920,000 members anonymous ‘has responded through a particularly strong statement:
” This is not an act of hacktivism is a criminal act. This is an illegal action against members of AshleyMadison.com and against free thinkers individuals who choose to engage in perfectly legal activities online. This or these criminals have become moral judges, jurors and executioners, and want to impose their own version of virtue to the whole society. We will not remain stupidly sit and allow these thieves to impose their ideology around the world. “
Team Impact motivations are indeed surprising: according to their various releases, it is indeed because they abhor the very concept of Ashley Madison and ‘Established Men (sulphurous dating site that connects wealthy men and women) they attacked Avid Life Media. Their ambition: that these two services are definitively cut. Motivations that contrast with those of many cybercriminals, who use mostly the data they collected in order to extort money from the targeted site.
These users will pass a dirty fifteen time
The fact is that the database delivered by Impact Team is well and truly in the site, and can be very painful. Many Internet users have already recovered the different files and extract data right now. Sites to query the database through a simple search engine are already online.
Other facetious surfers have already highlighted the potentially tens of mail accounts “crispy” from the Vatican (in “.va”) provided by the United Nations (“.a”) or UK Government employees. Scandals compromising some celebrities are perhaps to be expected. However, it is worth remembering that the site does not require confirmation email from a client. Find the email from a close in this database does not mean necessarily that it was registered on the site …
According to security researcher Robert Graham, who analyzed the database, it would contain 28 million people, 5 million women and 2 million indeterminate sex. Personal information is very accurate, since not only discovers the user’s name and email, but also information about its physical (weight, height …) and sometimes an address or GPS coordinates! The database does not contain passwords, but their footprint that hackers can exploit to recover sesame if it is too simple. Much information that could not only put their prickly relationship problems … But also make them vulnerable to further attacks online.
This incredible hack is not the first to have touched a rather hot dating site. At least last May, a hacker had hacked the site Adult Friend Finder and recovered the plans sex 4 million subscribers. But at the time, his ambition was quite different: he sold it 70 against Bitcoin hard cash …
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