Ashley Madison is a portal used by spouses to organize themselves “running off”. Media speculation has long been that among the stolen information are not only data about users, but also include employees of the company and its board of directors. The case study examines the service on computers FBI.
On Friday alleged hackers have advised portal dealing with, among others, Motherboard web themes that broke into computers dating without any problems.
“We were in Avid Life Media (website owner) long enough to understand everything and get what we wanted. Nobody looked. There was no protection,” – said the group in a message sent to the address of the portal. They noted that they are in possession of approx. 300 GB of data employees and their internal correspondence. However assured that they will not disclose information about rank and file workers, however, did not rule out the possibility of publishing data on the board of the company.
In correspondence with the Motherboard hackers also accused of Avid Life Media about unfair practices and cheating customers. “They earn 100 million a year for the same fraud. (…) They say they do not collect information CC (credit card details). Sure, this does not save as e-mail, they used every day to log on and read. They have a password special processor CC. (…) This processor collects the majority of credit card numbers and address data “- stressed hackers. They assured also that their intention was not blackmail users.
“Life is short. Treat yourself romance”
About disclosing more than 37 million customers website Ashley Madison hackers showing up as the Impact Team announced in July, threatening to publish compromising photographs, sexual fantasies like. They published then a sample of compromising the data and warned that if the portal Ashley Madison is closed, reveal the real names of his clients, their profiles zdjęciowymi materials, information concerning their credit cards.
The Canadian company Avid Life Media, which includes Ashley Madison, issued a statement stating that it was investigating the matter. Hackers accused of “moral appointed himself judge, jury and executioner.”
Dating Ashley Madison advertises the slogan “Life is short. Treat yourself affair.” It is estimated that use of its 64 million people.
The Associated Press notes that several experts in the field of network security, who reviewed disclosed by hackers data, concluded that they appear to be authentic. Dave Kennedy, head of the company TrustedSec, said that these data include, among others names, password, address, credit card information. He expressed his belief that the hackers had access to systems Ashley Madison “a long time”.
Source: TVN Agency / x-news
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