Hackers Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data

“90-95% of the actual users are male”.

Some of the registrations used a “whitehouse.gov“, address.

“The dark web is an area of the internet that is protected generally from public visibility”. Among the addresses were phone numbers and names.

Impact Team appears to have hacked AshleyMadison.com and its partner site EstablishedMen.com in an attempt to publicly embarrass its users and bring down what it describes as a duplicitous company. He said a massive amount of data is included in the posting. The hackers demanded that Ashley Madison and its sister site Established Men be taken down, but the company refused.

The statement noted: “This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality”.

The hackers’ message does say that just because someone’s email address is in the files doesn’t necessarily mean that they had an affair, merely that they might have been trying to.

“But when you start factoring in payment information, that becomes harder to explain”, he said.

The hackers who breached the Ashley Madison website for cheating spouses have made good on their threat to reveal the details of its customers.

Krebs said it was unsurprising that some of the emails were attached to government accounts, but he declined to speculate on the motivations of those who signed up. “You put yourself in a compromising situation, but people do it all the time”.

The hackers responded to the data dump by saying it had referred the matter to law enforcement agencies.

While cheaters may be having a nerve-wracking day, some people on Twitter predicted divorce lawyers would be extra busy with potential new clients. Avid Life Media has previously acknowledged suffering an electronic break-in.

The company said last month after the breach that it was taking steps to delete the stolen data, but it was too late. “Hackers will be able to “crack” many of these passwords when users chose weak ones, but users who [chose] strong passwords are safe”.

The data released contains full user profiles, which includes not only names, but personal dating information, height, weight, sexual fantasies, and so on. Some users, based on their email addresses, reportedly work for the United Nations and the Vatican.

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