Is Your Online Info Ever Really Safe from Hackers?
The first thing is that Ashley Madison was really hacked by the Impact Team, since the Canadian man has admitted to the Toronto Sun that he, indeed, signed up for Ashley Madison and was a member for two or three years.
The Ashley Madison hack could have repercussions that go far beyond the basic questions of security and privacy.
The fact that one of the two men whose names were leaked by the Impact Team’s hacking of Ashley Madison has finally spoken to the press confirms two troubling things. This time, it’s 37 million – the number of users of Ashley Madison, an online dating site for married people looking for an affair.
According to a report, the hackers, which called themselves “The Impact Team“, posted a small sample of sensitive data (since taken offline) stolen from Avid Life Media, the company that owns AshleyMadison, along with other hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men.
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Johnson said that cheating will not stop just because personal information started to leak online.
“The process involves a hard-delete of a requesting user’s profile, including the removal of posted pictures and all messages sent to other system users’ email boxes”.
“BunnyRanch.com and the Bunny Ranch brothel itself have important differences from the risks associated with Ashley Madison”, Hof said in a statement.
“Even when our customers elect to use credit cards, none of that information is retained by us”. If those guys who are about to have their lives ruined had been meeting lovely willing women on BunnyRanch.com instead, their identities would’ve remained completely anonymous and therefore would’ve never been the target of hackers. His dating profile was dispensed for everyone to see online.
Ashley Madison’s Chief Executive Noel Biderman also said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to secure the data.
Hackers have threatened to release all information from the millions and millions of users if Ashley Madison and another ALM website, Established Men, are not shut down.