Hackers have fulfilled their threats – AshleyMadison.com users’ personal data published on the Web – Onet.pl

AshleyMadison.com it, “the most famous brand encourages infidelity and dating from the married and married people.” For something that is certainly a source of pride, service with global reach, and built a thriving business, rightly assuming that the controversy will not hurt, and even help you reach your potential customers.

After confirming the intrusion on the site servers in July, hackers group The Impact Team have demanded the closure of AshleyMadison.com, together with a related, also owned by Avid Life Media, EstablishedMan .com, allowing for contacts between “young women and interesting men.” The condition was not fulfilled, because in torrent package appeared in documents of about 5.6 GB. It contains personal information of registered users, including their email addresses, private profiles of the site (including date of birth, address, weight, height, sexual preference) and payment history with credit cards numbers.

Is it possible that, rather well-known anarchist tendencies, anonymous hackers transformed into defenders of morality? At least tries to introduce a Canadian company Avid Life Media, emphasizing close cooperation with law enforcement to catch dangerous criminals.

A similar rhetoric also are catching some big media focusing on the dimension of “moral” issues, ignoring deceptive and fraudulent nature of działalnośli AML, which they say hackers. AshleyMadison is a symbolic representative of the whole range of Internet services, whose activities could easily be called “shenanigans”. Based on social engineering tricks and building capital on false promises, fences on the border of law often helpless against the Internet hustlers.

This is why we hackers Impact Team resemble and are calling for caution in drawing hasty conclusions from published materials. They recall that as many as 90-95% of users are men AshleyMadison. Service fill fake profiles, often created with the use of images published on the web unaware of the women.

The scale seemingly trivial business, let evidenced by the fact that the mere service that account for which you had to pay $ 19 Avid Life Media has brought 1.7 million dollars in revenue. Those who profited from it, but will not be able to sleep peacefully in the conviction that “no one will know.” Their data is not removed from the server and as with the rest of the 37 million users, also were in the hands of hackers.