Owner of Ashley Madison website confirms some authentic data leaked, but no

“However, having a personal email address linked to an account doesn’t mean that person is really a user of Ashley Madison”.

Both sites are owned by Avid Life Media who assured users last month that they were able to “secure” its sites and “close the unauthorized access points”.

Computer hackers who breached AshleyMadison.com, a dating website that targets married people, are reportedly beginning to share the site’s user data online.

The data, which was posted on the dark web on Wednesday, has been confirmed as legitimate by several experts, and contains much more information than was first thought.

The data included everything from login details and email addresses to payment transaction information. However, since the affair website does not require email address verification, some noted that anyone could have used it to set up a fake account.

Hackers appear to have made good on a threat to leak information on over 30 million users of AshleyMadison.com, a hook-up site geared toward cheating spouses. “Have an affair.” However, some 37 million users of the hookup might get sorry for ever registering, since the still-unfolding leak could be now quite damaging for their reputation, professional career and marriage.

But this data dump appeared to confirm that the hackers were not driven by blackmail or commercial motives, but rather ideological ones.

Yesterday, there was a large dump of about 9.7 gigabytes worth of data released online that was exclusively comprised of all the stolen information of the almost 32 million users on the site. “It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any free-thinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities”, it said.

Avid Life Media did not verify the data was real, but said it was aware of the claim.

“I don’t think they’re going to release them”.

“Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles”, they wrote on the webpage leading to the data dump, according to a report from Wired.

Challenging the company’s promise of total discretion, the hackers said at the time “too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver”.

Thieves, involved with this work have hired themselves whilst the ethical judge, or “The legal, executioner, and juror”, the organization said.