A Very Sorry Affair!

Ashley Madison Data Hack is "done for profit."

20:26 22 July 2015

A hacking insider says that people who have hacked into Ashley Madison, an adultery website, could be bluffing when they said that they are going to release personal details and using the publicity as advertising to sell the data to the highest bidder.

The hackers, Impact Team, have leaked some of the data that they’ve stolen and are threatening to publish more. So far, the group has released just 40MB of data, including some credit card details and several documents about its parent company, Avid Life Media (ALM).

 

The hackers said in a statement: "Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.

 

In their own statement, ALM said: "We apologise for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our customers' information.

 

"The current business world has proven to be one in which no company's online assets are safe from cyber-vandalism, with Avid Life Media being only the latest among many companies to have been attacked, despite investing in the latest privacy and  security technologies.

 

"At this time, we have been able to secure our sites, and close the unauthorised access points. We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act.

 

"Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber-terrorism will be held responsible."

"The other websites may stay online."