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Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked

posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 20 2015, @05:49PM   
from the cheaters-never-prosper dept.

evilcam writes:

KrebsonSecurity is reporting that the online "cheating" site AshleyMadison.com (and other sites run by the Avid Life Media group) has been hacked with user information compromised by a group called the Impact Team.

The group is threatening to release all data online as a result of alleged lies the ALM group told members unless the sites are entirely shut down.

"Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It's also a complete lie," the hacking group wrote. "Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed."

AshleyMadison.com does offer a $20 "Full Delete" option for a users profile, as detailed in this ArsTechnica article from 2014. Obviously, this "Full Delete" is now useless, as the information is already (allegedly) in the hands of the hackers.

Is this a case of altruistic hacking or a possible case of revenge?

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• Re:Lying (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2015, @07:35PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2015, @07:35PM (#211535)

  In fact, as I play out this little fantasy, I think I would wait until they shut down the website, and then release the personal info ANYWAY. Just to be a dick. Not the credit card info, the awful, personal, sexual stuff. Those folks fucked up big time by joining that site. They shouldn't get away that easy.

  How do you know that? You don't know their personal circumstances or details of their relationships and you can't safely make assumptions. As to the public release of personal / private information -- that is always disgusting.

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