Brian Krebs reports: When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their…
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Ashley Madison cyber-breach: 5 years later, users are being targeted with ‘sextortion’ scams
Kate Fazzini reports: Scammers have found a new way to wring money out of unsuspecting victims of the 2015 breach of the Ashley Madison affair-dating website, by using their stolen credentials in an amped-up version of the common “sextortion” scam. Researchers at email security company Vade Secure found the new scam earlier this year, when…
Infidelity dating site Ashley Madison still gets thousands of new users every day — here’s why
Lindsay Dodgson reports: If you sign up to Ashley Madison, you don’t have to think about what you’re doing as cheating, but “outsourcing your sex life.” “In 2018 we expect our life partners are going to be everything to us — they’ve got to be my best friend, they’ve got to be sexually compatible, they…
Ashley Madison takes your privacy very seriously…. until they don’t…
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Despite the catastrophic 2015 hack that hit the dating site for adulterous folk, people still use Ashley Madison to hook up with others looking for some extramarital action. For those who’ve stuck around, or joined after the breach, decent cybersecurity is a must. Except, according to security researchers, the site has left photos of…
Ashley Madison parent corp in proposed $11.2 million data breach settlement
Jonathan Stempel reports: The owner of the Ashley Madison adultery website said on Friday it will pay $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a July 2015 data breach. Ruby Corp, formerly known as Avid Life Media Inc, denied wrongdoing in agreeing…
Ashley Madison blackmailers threaten to create Cheater’s Gallery exposing members who don’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: Blackmailers are once again trying to make money out of the notorious Ashley Madison hack, which exposed the details of registered members of the cheating website in 2015. Robin Harris writes on ZDNet that he has received a blackmail threat, alerting him that unless he pays up $500 worth of Bitcoin his…