Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
Found on Krebs On Security on Monday, 20 July 2015
ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property. Indeed, in the short span of 30 minutes between that brief interview and the publication of this story, several of the Impact Team’s Web links were no longer responding.
“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. The other websites may stay online.”
Why people would sign up with their real names makes one wonder. Better come up with a fake name and address, plus a throw-away email account instead because the promised privacy never existed in the first place.