Fantasies and subscriber profiles fuitent a dating site … – Liberation

With piracy Ashley Madison dating site, followers of adultery are discreetly for their fresh, profile, identity and fantasies of some of 37 million subscribers who have been brought to light.

Identifying himself as “The impact team,” a hacker group on Monday launched a real blackmail the company Avid Life Media (ALM ), owner of several adulterous dating sites, the most famous, Ashley Madison, catchy slogan: “Life is short. Have an affair “(” Life is short. Have a Lover “).

The operator was ordered to” close down the sites and Ashley Madison Established Men “, under penalty of publishing “all data subscribers, including their sexual fantasies, their credit card transactions, identity and address,” according to the message released by the pirates KrebsonSecurity blog.

The threat, supported by the publication data of some subscribers, has been taken seriously by ALM, which recognized the vulnerability of its servers, operated by an “unauthorized person”.

“At this stage, we secure our closed sites and unauthorized access points, “assured ALM. “All messages related to this incident have been removed” sites, including “our subscriber identification personal data” which were briefly made public.

This blackmail, according to hackers, aims to denounce the false advertising of the ALM company that promises to remove all the personal data of users for $ 19. This option “reported $ 1.7 million to ALM in 2014. But this is a total lie,” according to the pirates.

In response, ALM has decided to put an end to the billing this service deletes all data since “the privacy of our customers is our primary concern.” The company denied retain data such as name, address and bank details of his former clients

-. “Tachycardia and insomnia” –

Almost all subscribers s ‘register and pay by credit card, which requires to give the name and address associated with the account. This information is “of course most important that the subscriber wants to delete”.

Founded in Toronto in 2001, the ALM company itself as “the largest site in the world for married men and women looking for an extramarital relationship with discretion. “

With nearly 40 million subscribers in 46 countries for its various dating sites, the rhythm of a new subscriber every six second in the world, ALM was mocked abundantly Monday on social networks.

“Are you good conscience this morning?”, or “Poor devils registered on Ashley Madison, victims of cold sweat , tachycardia and insomnia “and were critical of Twitter users. Another, more seriously worried “trouble” for subscribers who have seen their data come to light and, more seriously, “their name associated with their real names.”

This computer attack is the latest in a series that targeted both private companies as sites of governments or administrations. At the end of spring, a piracy Adult FriendFinder personals site had resulted in the siphoning data from 3.9 million members.