Cheating site Ashley Madison offers reward for info on hack

Hakers then recently released detailed records on millions of people from several countries registered with the website.

The data dump made good on the hackers’ threat last month to leak customers’ nude photos, sexual fantasies, names and credit card information from the Canadian website with the slogan, “Life is short”.

Toronto Police acting staff Superintendent Bryce Evans said the hack is having an “enormous social and economic fallout”.

Canadian police say they have become aware of two unconfirmed cases of suicide connected to the hacking of the Ashley Madison affairs website.

The hackers who took responsibility for the break-in had accused the website’s owners of deceit and incompetence, and said the company refused to bow to their demands to close the site.

Hackers referring to themselves as the Impact Team vowed to release Ashley Madison customer data unless the website was permanently shut down.

Previous releases this week have contained millions of email addresses, including US government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations, and emails by the company’s founder Noel Biderman.

Evans noted that the data from the hack has been widely distributed online.

Who’s to blame?: While The Impact Team does have a fair point in saying that Ashley Madison website is a scam(in that it has suspiciously great number of male users, so much so, that it can’t be said if the website has any female users at all, thus making Ashley Madison a giant fraud), there were other “users” who came forward to comment that they actually met their spouses through Ashley Madison.

“Personal information is like money, and you don’t just give away your money”, Kaiser said. They encompass more than two dozen agencies, such as the departments of State, Justice, Energy, Treasury and Transportation. Special Agent Ron Marcello of Homeland Security Investigations said Toronto police asked for assistance and said the FBI is the lead on investigating the hack.

U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.

“Nobody is going to be able to erase that information”, Evans said, adding that anyone being extorted should report the matter to their local police force. “We’re looking at bringing in top security investigators from around the world to assist”. The problem is, security experts say, there is very little else they can do to keep hackers out.

His son, Jason DeZwirek, owns 15 per cent, and the family’s investment company, Icarus Investment Corp, holds another 10.8 per cent, giving the DeZwireks and their related companies a 30.5 per cent stake in Avid Life Media.