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New details have emerged about the actions taken by hacked infidelity dating site Ashley Madison after users paid to delete their data.
The hackers, apparently demanded a huge sum of money from the website admins in exchange of the 10 gigabytes of data of the 3 crore profiles that they stole.
Bartlett said many felt the disclosure of their name and other information would “significantly” affect their personal lives.
Hunt, who also runs his own blog at troyhunt.com, has been keeping on top of developments with other Ashley Madison searchable databases and has come out strongly against trustify.com.
All of this information coming following a major hack and data breach of the website. The small print – together with names, emails, house addresses, monetary knowledge and message historical past – have been posted publicly on-line final week.
In the wake of these incidents, Ashley Madison’s parent company Avid Life Media Inc. has offered a reward of C$500,000 ($379,132) to anyone who could catch the hackers. “You are talking about families, their children, their wives, their male partners”.
“Thank You Ashley Madison“, a series concept based on a woman who signs up to the website, is being pitched to networks by Los Angeles-based OutEast Entertainment, the company’s senior vice president of development, Courtney Hazlett, said on Wednesday. And now a lawsuit has been filed by “all Canadians”, and they’re chasing Ashley Madison for close to six hundred million dollars.
The hackers who claimed themselves as Impact Team said that the security breach was an act of vengeance against the policy of the Avid Life Media.
Acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans of the Toronto police said, addressing the hackers known as The Impact Team, “I want to make it very clear to you your actions are illegal and we will not be tolerating them”.
Toronto police had appeared on a press conference this week revealing two unconfirmed suicides linked to the recent Ashley Madison data dump.
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The releases contained millions of e-mail addresses, including United States government officials, British civil servants, high-level executives at European and North American corporations, and e-mail by the company’s founder Noel Biderman.
