The well-known extramarital website AshleyMadison.com was recently Hacker attack Nearly 37 million user data and company information have been stolen, and some have been published online. The hacker who claimed to be responsible for the incident said, "This is to debunk the false promise made when the website was publicized."
Hacker intrusion AshleyMadison.com website, revealing 37 million user data
AshleyMadison.com (hereinafter referred to as ALM) is a website providing dating and dating services for married people, advocating "Life is short. Have an happiness". Recently, a large number of user data of the website were published online, and hacker He said that he had invaded the website and stolen the user's database, company financial data and other information.
The hacker/hacker team responsible for this incident is called The Impact Team. At present, some internal sensitive data of Avid Life Media (ALM) has been published online. This company located in Toronto, Canada not only owns AshleyMadison.com, but also owns Cougar Life and Established Men, two similar dating websites.
Noel Biderman, CEO of ALM, confirmed in an interview last Sunday that the company's data had been stolen, and he said that ALM was "crazy and working hard" to protect ALM's intellectual property rights. During the 30 minutes of the interview, many links of the Impact Team's published data have been inaccessible.
The hacker randomly released some ALM account data, the company's internal server map, employee network account information, company bank account information and employee salary information.
ALM's "complete deletion" service makes it net 1.7 million dollars
hacker In addition to publishing leaked information, the organization The Impact Team also issued a long statement, claiming that this release of information is purely to expose ALM's lies: users can safely delete user information on the website for only $19 ALM said that it would "completely delete" users' use records and personal identifiable inquiries on the website, but users' purchase records, But in fact, it is not, including the real name and address information has not been deleted.
"The business of deleting information alone made ALM make a net profit of 1.7 million dollars in 2014, but this is a complete lie. The purchase information of users was not deleted as promised, including the user's name and address, which is undoubtedly the important information that users most want to be deleted."
The Impact Team said that unless ALM permanently closes Ashley Madison and Established Men, Otherwise, they will publish all user information - including the user's secret fantasy object, credit card transaction records, real name and address, employee information and e-mail.
The identity of the hacker will be revealed soon
Neil Bydman, CEO of ALM, said that the company has launched an investigation at present and the progress is fast, but he refused to disclose details. Bidman suggested that the hackers who stole these information had logged into the company's network at least once in a legal way, so they were probably former employees or contractors of the company.
"We can confirm the identity of the criminal right away. Unfortunately, this may lead to a large amount of information being published. I have the files and work records of the suspect in my hands, and the criminal is definitely one of them. Although he is not an employee of the company, he has contacted our technical services."
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