Be that as it may, Impact Team hacked Ashley Madison in order to protest unethical business practices, and now may have released 10GB of data – the personal information of over 36 million users worldwide – onto the Dark Net.
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On Tuesday, account details, credit card information and other personal data of Ashley Madison members was reportedly leaked to the web using what Wired describes to be “an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser”.
“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails”, the hackers wrote in a statement following the breach.
Another user was checking for someone “who wants to feel sexy and hot”. “Now everyone gets to see their data”, the hackers said in a statement. “Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles”, said the post. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95 per cent of actual users are male. “It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities”, Avid Life Media said in a statement to Wired.
Curiously the CougarLife website, aimed at hooking up young men with older women and owned by Ashley Madison’s parent, was untouched. “If that distinction matters”. Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver….
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However, ALM never required that data be valid unless the user registered for a paid account, and even then the verification process wasn’t that hard to bypass as long as the bills were paid. Prosecute them and claim damages. “Embarassing now, but you’ll get over it”. Other information can not be confirmed, and some users have noted that portions of data may have been falsified.
