Troy Hunt writes: To date, I’ve avoided commenting on the other Ashley Madison search services and have invested my efforts purely in keeping Have I been pwned? (HIBP) ticking along. I’ve seen them come and indeed I’ve seen some of them go too. I’ve seen many that enable you to get confirmation about the presence of an…
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UK Islamist Hamza Tzortzis “found” in leaked Ashley Madison database
It could be very dirty (clever) politics to create Ashley Madison accounts for people you might want to discredit politically – particularly when the site doesn’t verify email addresses. And that’s what a UK Islamist preacher, Hamza Tzortzis, claimed happened to him. When he learned his name was in the leaked database, he took to his Facebook…
Leaked Ashley Madison emails reveals 2012 hack
Mikael Thalen reports: Leaked emails from Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman reveal that a disgruntled user of the online cheating service Ashley Madison hacked hundreds of the site’s user accounts in 2012. […] One such email from Biderman in October of 2012 details how one Ashley Madison user “hacked” multiple accounts and attempted to…
Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’
Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…
Blackmailers Demand Bitcoin from Ashley Madison Users
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…
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….