Hackers Release Details Of Ashley Madison Cheaters
A 9.7GB dump containing personal information from users of the site designed to help married people cheat on their spouses was posted Tuesday on the Dark Web.
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The personal data of more than 37 million people was posted online Tuesday after hackers attacked AshleyMadison.com, an online dating service for married individuals to cheat on their partners, security experts confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
The hackers (or hacker), calling themselves The Impact Team, promised to release the "secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses," in a threat that now seems to have been fulfilled. Security experts who reviewed the data said "there was every indication that the data is real," and urged anyone who has used a credit card on the site to immediately contact their bank.
Troy Hunt, a security researcher who operates the website Have I Been Pwned?, which allows people to check if their email addresses are being hawked, told BuzzFeed News he was updating his site with the emails of those breached in the Ashley Madison leak.
"We have multiple indicators that this is legitimate. There are things here that are just too hard to fabricate," said Hunt. "We haven't seen yet what the attack vector was used to hack the Ashley Madison site. It will be very telling if there was a low-hanging vulnerability, and that the site exposed all its millions of users by not securing something straightforward."
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