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Hackers who stole millions of customer records from affair-
inciting site Ashley Madison have posted the data online.

It comes almost exactly a month after hackers, dubbed Impact 
Team, claimed to have breached the company's systems, pilfering 
as many as 37 million customer records. They then threatened to 
release the files online.

The Toronto, Canada-based Avid Life Media, which owns the 
website, admitted the following day its systems had been 
breached.

Hackers who stole millions of customer records from affair-
inciting site Ashley Madison have posted the data online.

It comes almost exactly a month after hackers, dubbed Impact 
Team, claimed to have breached the company's systems, pilfering 
as many as 37 million customer records. They then threatened to 
release the files online.

The Toronto, Canada-based Avid Life Media, which owns the 
website, admitted the following day its systems had been 
breached.

Just shy of 10 gigabytes of data were published late Tuesday to 
a dark web server -- inaccessible through ordinary browsers.

Wired was first to report the news Tuesday.

In a brief statement on the page, the hackers wrote: "Find 
yourself in here? It was [Avid Life Media] that failed you and 
lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with 
your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, 
but you'll get over it."

We're still sifting through some of the files, which can't be 
independently verified at this point.

"Ashley Madison data is almost certainly legit... too many 
things that simply couldn't have been faked or would have been 
enormous effort," said security expert Troy Hunt on Twitter 
earlier.

Based on a brief analysis of some of the data, it appears credit 
card data and payment transactions, usernames, email addresses, 
and other documents are in the downloadable cache.

Not all of the data can be considered accurate: users who signed 
up to the site did not have to verify their email addresses, 
suggesting some data may be inaccurate. Other information cannot 
be confirmed, and some users have noted that portions of data 
may have been falsified.

Avid Life Media called the event an "act of criminality" in a 
statement.

"We are continuing to fully cooperate with law enforcement to 
seek to hold the guilty parties accountable to the strictest 
measures of the law," the statement added.

This post has been updated.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ashley-madison-hackers-publish-
stolen-data-to-dark-web/

   

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