The Ashley Madison site was hacked in July by a group of hackers. They released Tuesday identity and the addresses of 32 million intended users.
Ashley Madison promised users with “discrete adventures.” Hackers have decided otherwise, by publishing online the identity of more than 32 million users of extramarital dating site. Their name, first name and their email addresses and the history of their transactions were revealed, according to the US site information Wired . The file also contains sequences of 4 digits, which could refer to the latest credit card numbers, and encrypted passwords. It was first published on a site accessible through the anonymous Tor network and broadcast via torrent sites.
“Rot infidels”
The Ashley Madison site which claims over 40 million users worldwide, was hacked in July. The authors of the flight demanded the complete abolition of the platform, under penalty to publish the stolen data. Another site belonging to the owner of Ashley Madison, the Canadian media group Avid Life Media, has also been a similar blackmail. This allowed users to get in touch with young women and maintain them. Another property of the group, a site specializing in meetings between women and younger men, was spared.
Ashley Madison piracy is particularly important. It’s bigger than that suffered by the network Playstation Network Sony in 2011. Almost 25 million PlayStation players had seen their bank details stolen. The attack Ashley Madison is even greater and reaches this time the privacy of individuals. In early 2015, another dating site, AdultFriendFinder, had also been hacked, revealing this time the sexual orientation of more than 4 million users.
Dubbed “Team Impact”, the team of hackers causing the flight home Ashley Madison did not hide his opinion about its users. “These infidels rots do not deserve our discretion,” had he said in July. They also denounced the business practices of Ashley Madison. It asked its users 19 dollars against the removal of their account of the site. Now, according to hackers, this feature was a “perfect lie.” Although the data associated with an account were deleted from the site, they remained stored in the Avid Life Media servers. “You found your name on this list? It is the fault of Avid Life Media, who has lied to you, “they said in a message released Tuesday. “Attack them to justice and continue your life. Remember the lesson. You are embarrassed now, but you will forgive. “
Non-verified email addresses
The pirates also specify that all email addresses in this file belong not necessarily to a real user of the targeted sites. “[Ashley Madison] contains thousands of fake profiles of women,” they said. “It is possible that your husband sought to have an affair, but failed to get into.” This version is corroborated by several journalists and specialists in computer security, which ensure that Ashley Madison did not bother to check the addresses emails used on its website. In July, the site The Intercept published the testimony of a woman whose address was used to create a fake account on the platform fome, for purposes of blackmail. Tuesday published file contains more than 15,000 addresses .gov or .mil email, belonging to people working in the government or the US military.
Meanwhile, Avid Life Media has denounced a “indictable offense”. “The perpetrators are improvised moral judge, jury and executioner,” the company said in a statement Tuesday. “They consider it appropriate to impose their values and ideology to others. We can not tolerate it. “Ashley Madison was preparing its IPO and would have made nearly 115 million dollars in sales in 2014, according to Bloomberg. It was launched in France in 2012 but still trails by the site Gleeden, leader of the market.
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