Stan Higgins reports: An American has received a blackmail email demanding payment in bitcoin after user data from the extramarital affair platform Ashley Madison was leaked. The email, provided to CoinDesk and dated 20th August, was sent by an entity calling itself “Team GrayFlay” and contained the individual’s name and personal address. The user was instructed to…
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Toronto-area lawyers file class action over Ashley Madison breach
Jenny Yuen of Toronto Sun reports on a potential class action lawsuit filed in Toronto. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is Eliot Shore, a disabled widower in Ottawa, who after 30 years of marriage lost his wife to breast cancer. He joined Ashley Madison for a short time seeking companionship, but never met anyone online….
Second Ashley Madison data dump, bigger than the first, lays bare their source code
As if it couldn’t get any worse for Avid Life Media, a second data dump has been released on the dark web. This one appears to contain all of CEO Noel Biderman’s emails and the source code for their web sites. As Trusted Sec notes on their blog: if this turns out to be legitimate…
NZ Privacy Commissioner warns that republishing AshleyMadison data may violate NZ law
Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…
Police nab Korean-Chinese hacker suspected of developing mobile spyware
Yonhap News reports: A Korean-Chinese hacker has been arrested on suspicion of developing mobile spyware that can not only steal one’s financial data but also bug Android smartphones, police said Wednesday. Seoul Gwanak Police Station said the 27-year-old Seo was arrested on Aug. 5 in southern Seoul on charges of developing spyware that can be…
Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes
Sui-Lee Wee reports: Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security”, as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet. […] Police have investigated 7,400 cases of cyber crime, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its website. It did not…