Ashley Madison Hackers Finally Released All the Stolen Data Online
Hackers who claimed to have stolen customers’ data from Ashley Madison, recently leaked nearly 10GB of its users’ personal data online. Very embarrassing for millions Ashley Madison users.
The group of hackers, which called itself The Impact Team, has reportedly leaked personal data of Ashley Madison customers on the dark web.
The leaked data includes personal details of nearly 36 Million Ashley Madison customers’ accounts, which includes:
Username
First and Last Names
Email addresses
Hashed passwords
Partial Credit Card data
Street Names
Phone Numbers
Records documenting 9.6 Million Credit Card Transactions
No Mercy for Cheaters!
The Impact Team stole the data from the popular cheating website last month and threatened the company to reveal all associated data of its 37 Million cheating customers “unless the site for the marital affair was taken down.”
The hackers leaked the data because Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, refused their demand to take down the site.
“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” the hackers released a statement with the leaked data. “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.”
We have a reviewed a small amount of the leaked data, but wasn’t able to confirm its authenticity. But from what we have learned this is in fact data that came from their corporate network. Some of the leaked data contains employee personal info, company server run books as well as company banking information including logins!
US Government and Military Officials Won’t be Able to Sleep Tonight
Yes, the leaked data also include more than 15,000 e-mail addresses that are hosted on US government and military servers that uses the .gov and .mil top-level domains.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating this massive theft alongside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local police, Avid Life Media said.
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