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| Ashley Madison's hacked customer files posted online as per threat, say reports | Ashley Madison's hacked customer files posted online as per threat, say reports |
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| Hackers say they have followed through on a threat to release stolen customer information from the cheating spouses website AshleyMadison.com. | Hackers say they have followed through on a threat to release stolen customer information from the cheating spouses website AshleyMadison.com. |
| The data was initially posted on to the “dark web”, reports said, making it only accessible using a specialised browser, although lists of email addresses sprouted up on other sites afterwards. Its authenticity could not immediately be confirmed. | The data was initially posted on to the “dark web”, reports said, making it only accessible using a specialised browser, although lists of email addresses sprouted up on other sites afterwards. Its authenticity could not immediately be confirmed. |
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| A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and EstablishedMen.com, another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. | A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and EstablishedMen.com, another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. |
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| Tech website Wired said 9.7 gigabytes of data was posted and appeared to include member account and credit card details. | Tech website Wired said 9.7 gigabytes of data was posted and appeared to include member account and credit card details. |
| “Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” Wired quoted Impact Team as saying in a statement accompanying the online dump. | “Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” Wired quoted Impact Team as saying in a statement accompanying the online dump. |
| “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM [Avid Life Media] and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data,” the hackers said, according to Wired. | “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM [Avid Life Media] and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data,” the hackers said, according to Wired. |
| Avid Life, which uses the slogan “Life is short. Have an affair”, condemned the hackers, saying they had appointed themselves as “the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society”. | |
| “These are illegitimate acts that have real consequences for innocent citizens who are simply going about their daily lives,” said a company statement. | |
| Avid Life said it had asked the FBI to investigate, as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police and Toronto Police. |