Betrayed wife. Hackers have released their data – Newsweek Poland

This is one of the biggest scandals of adultery Internet. Hackers have released user data dating service that helped married to find a partner for casual sex.

“Life is short. Allow yourself to romance “- advertising portal AshleyMadison.com, which has been operating since 2001 and has as many as 37 million users. A large part of it is their lords betrayed wife.

However, this is not it distinguishes AshleyMadison.com from other similar sites. Portal aroused great controversy and media attention when in 2014 his former employee Dorian Silva revealed that the company creates a false women’s profiles, which are aimed to encourage men to enjoy sex bid.

That’s cheating customers made the portal became interested in the hacker group Impact Team. The reason? Though AshleyMadison.com promised that in exchange for $ 19 deletes user data, the company still kept information on their servers. In order to make the portal to action in July hackers revealed examples of data users and an ultimatum: either AshleyMadison.com will be closed, along with its sister party EstablishedMen.com (having combined in a pair of older men with young women) or data of all 37 million users to be published .

It’s cheating customers made the portal attracted a group of hackers Impact Team.

The owner of the website Avid Life Media does not agree to shut down the website. Instead, the owner portals condemned the hacker, saying that they are criminals who steal personal information. To this he said that hackers should not regard themselves as moral judges and executioners, because each person has a different sense of morality.

But that hackers do not throw words to the wind. As he writes Wired.com technology portal on the Internet appeared just a file size of 9.7 gigabytes. It seems that you have the information at least 32 members AshleyMadison.com. Although some of the information may be bogus, with data obtained from banking transactions can be real names, addresses, e-mails and the amount paid sums. The file does not contain credit card numbers. Interestingly, e-mail addresses as many as 15 thousand. ends in .mil or .gov, and they are the tip of the right for people working in the military organizations of the United States government.