The attackers, who call themselves the Impact Team, demanded that the site’s owner, Avid Life Media, take it down.
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The hackers behind the Ashley Madison breach have reportedly dumped a lot more data online.
Interesting enough-if this turns out to be legitimate which it in all aspects appears to be-having full source code to these websites means that other hacker groups now have the ability to find new flaws in Avid Life’s websites, and further compromise them more.
“Everybody’s all of a sudden coming forward to express their complaints and wanting to know how they can participate”, said lawyer Ted Charney, who is working with David Robins from Sutts, Strosberg LLP, on the lawsuit.
The federal workers included at least two assistant U.S. attorneys; an information technology administrator in the Executive Office of the President; a division chief, an investigator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department; a government hacker at the Homeland Security Department and another DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. counterterrorism response team.
“Passwords can be changed and credit cards replaced”, he said in an email.
The Motherboard report said the second release bore the hallmarks of Tuesday’s dump.
The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Six official state of Illinois email addresses were connected to Ashley Madison accounts and are included among the 36 million emails posted on the web this week by criminal hackers who broke into the extramarital-affair-hookup website.
Ashley Madison has yet to confirm whether or not the data is real, but the original 10-gigabyte data file caused quite a stir when it was released earlier this week.
“I would have thought this would be a death knell for that company because their entire business basis is privacy”, Mr Brooks said. “It just goes to say that all press is good press…The awareness of the brand is through the roof”. “The awareness of the brand is through the roof”.
The data release could have severe consequences for U.S. service members.
More than 15,000 accounts that used military or government domains were found in the dump, according to a blog by Salted Hash-Top Security News and others.
“We’ll see once people start to parse it”.
“The services are looking into it, as well they should be, absolutely”.
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US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was looking into whether members of the US military were on the site, since adultery may be prosecuted in the armed forces.
