Bigger batch of Ashley Madison data may contain CEO’s emails

An SNP MP whose email address was among the millions released in a data hack on adultery website Ashley Madison has said it was “harvested” by hackers.

Ms Thomson said: “Along with potentially millions of others, an out-of-use email address seems to have been harvested by hackers”.

Accompanied by a cheeky message to Avid Life Media’s CEO Noel Biderman, who owns and runs the extramarital dating site, the archive of files weigh in at just under 20GB.

More email addresses purportedly belonging to Ashley Madison users in Louisville were released Thursday.

Given the scope and impression the hack has had and will have; site users, cheaters, victims and pretty much anyone with an opinion have had something to say. “Have an affair” – has earned it flash notoriety as an “online cheating site”.

A PAIR OF Sydney radio hosts have outed the Ashley Madison account of a suspicious wife’s husband live on air.

The security firm Trusted Sec said the latest data leak – first reported by Vice Media’s website Motherboard – “does appear to be legitimate like the other dump”.

A data dump of about 9.7 GB was posted on Tuesday – albeit on the dark Web – which include sensitive information like personal details of the individuals on the site, credit card transactions, and the like.

In an infographic provided to us by Trustify, we learn that 70 percent of Ashley Madison’s 37 million users (those whose data was compromised) are men, while 30 percent of them are women. The owners did not listen to their demands, so the hackers believed that exposing everyone’s information was the right thing to do.

The data is said to contain names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. The websites have been created for the sole goal of searching specific emails in the database of Ashley Madison.

The Canadian company behind Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media, described the attack as “an act of criminality” that had “real consequences for innocent citizens who are simply going about their daily lives”.