Blackmailers target members of hacked dating site

Capt. Tyler Balzer with the US Marine Corps said as of now, no action is being taken, but the Department of Defense is investigating whether the addresses in the hack actually belong to service members. Finally we watched Ashley Madison signups growing and human trafficking on the sites. “With this information your significant other would be able to verify with your credit card company that you were indeed involved with Ashley Madison and therefore cheating or looking to cheat”.

“They do not belong to any genuine members of Ashley Madison – or any real human beings at all”, the suit adds. Torontobased Avid Life Media Inc., Ashley Madison’s parent company, hasn’t commented on the hackers’ accusation.

The previously released information landed San Antonio among the top 25 cities with the most Ashley Madison accounts.

The hackers behind the breach, who call themselves The Impact Team, have been in contact with the website Motherboard via e-mail and revealed their raison d’etre for the hack and also further details of the info that they have.

The second batch of stolen data that has been released on early Friday morning by the same hackers is no longer related to names and personal data of users, but rather to the administrative issues of the company.

According to top security researchers, the data is most likely authentic.

The list includes all personal data of the users including their Global Positioning System coordinates.

Tuesday’s release had customer information that included US government officials, British civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations.

However, there is also a strong likelihood of fake government accounts.

The Canadian Press has sorted through the data to find 76 credit-card transactions were made on DND computers involving 42 email addresses, and 25 transactions from the Commons using 13 email addresses. Actual White House employees use “eop.gov”.

He says he expects ramifications for visiting Ashley Madison, which he regrets.

The lawsuit targets Avid Dating Life Inc. and Avid Life Media Inc., the Toronto-based companies that run AshleyMadison.com was filed on Thursday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The hacking group accuse members of the site of “fraud, deceit and stupidity” telling users to “learn your lesson and make amends”.