Combined PING! and DANG!
Posted on 07/20/2015 7:04:35 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Hackers have stolen and leaked the personal details of users of Ashley Madison – a site that hooks up people who want to have affairs.
A group or individual known as The Impact Team claimed to be behind the attack and that it had data on all of Ashley Madison's 37 million users and its partner sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, all owned by Canada's Avid Life Media (ALM).
The Impact Team claims to have access to the company's user database and is threatening to release all of the information unless the site is taken down. So far the group has released 40MB of data which include credit card details as well as internal ALM files and documents.
ALM confirmed that the hack took place and told CNBC it has managed to take down all the personal information that was posted online by the hackers.
"Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has now successfully removed the...posts related to this incident as well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our users published online," ALM said in an emailed statement.
"Our team of forensics experts and security professionals, in addition to law enforcement, are continuing to investigate this incident and we will continue to provide updates as they become available."
It is unknown how many people managed to see the leaked adultery site's personal details. Ashley Madison has always been a controversial site. Earlier this year, in an op-ed for CNBC, the service's CEO Noel Biderman explained why people cheat.
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LOL, so it’s too profitable to take down and these guys are going to assure anyone who believes them that they have effectively removed credit card numbers posted to the internet... uh huh!
So if they can remove the hacked info about their members from the internet, why can’t our government do the same for all those affected by the recently revealed hack of 21 million plus govt employees?
Of course, the REAL fun will begin, when the cracking team starts data-mining the haul for blackmailing individual clients of this. . .service. . .
Because apparently the government is more honest.
Time for some Adultery Pride parades and rip a few chapters out of the book of Proverbs written by ancient old white men and hater bigots at that./sc
And don’t forget all those divorce attorneys!
Perhaps some wayward politicians might be in for a smackdown on this.
Ashley Madison-— too bad she used to make delicious tasty cakes and pies. Or was that sister Dolly? Ehehehe
I wonder how many influential members of Congress are/were on this site....
Just in time for Congress to review and approve the Iran fiasco!
I hope this does not expose any of the 2016 presidential runners.
I was thinking there might be repercussions in DC over this! Wait and see I guess.
There is an entire server dedicated to Bubba Clinton.....
For Democrats, it's a resume enhancer.
Combined PING! and DANG!
Next Up....Adultery Pride..Marches
Adulterers...they were born that way.
Its in their jean,,er GENES!!
LOL - good one!
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