{"id":56635,"date":"2015-07-22T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56635"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:44:27","slug":"cheating-website-ashley-madison-hacked-personal-info-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/22\/cheating-website-ashley-madison-hacked-personal-info-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating website Ashley Madison hacked, personal info posted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK \u2013 The parent company of Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says it was hacked and that the personal information of some of its users was posted online.<\/p>\n

In addition, the person or persons behind the attack are threatening to release all of the site\u2019s personal information \u2013 including its members\u2019 sexual fantasies and financial information \u2013 if the company doesn\u2019t take Ashley Madison offline, according to a prominent security blog.<\/p>\n

Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc. says it has had the hackers\u2019 posts \u2013 which included snippets of personal information \u2013 taken down and has hired a technology security firm. The company and law enforcement agencies are investigating.<\/p>\n

The breach was first reported late Sunday by Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity, a website that focuses on cybersecurity. Ashley Madison, whose slogan is \u201cLife is short. Have an affair,\u201d purports to have 37 million members.<\/p>\n

The hacking follows the May breach of the dating website Adult FriendFinder, which involved the theft of names, email addresses and information about the sexual orientation or habits of up to 4 million of that site’s members.<\/p>\n

According to Krebs, the hacker or hackers, in the Ashley Madison breach identified as \u201cThe Impact Team,\u201d posted large caches of data from the Ashley Madison site, claiming to have compromised user databases, financial records and other information.<\/p>\n

Besides random personal data from members, the hackers also posted maps of the company\u2019s internal servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information, Krebs says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hacker or hackers also posted a manifesto alongside the data, accusing Avid Life Media of lying to its customers about a $19 service that would scrub all of their personal information from its data bases, saying that the data doesn\u2019t actually go away,\u201d Krebs says.<\/p>\n

The hackers say that if Avid Life does not take its Ashley Madison and Established Men sites offline, it will release all of the company\u2019s information \u2013 including customer records, nude photos, sexual desires, online conversations, matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, along with employee documents and emails \u2013 according to a screen capture of the hackers\u2019 manifesto posted by Krebs.<\/p>\n

Avid Life released a statement Monday morning saying that it has been able to secure its sites and close the back doors into its systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act,\u201d the company\u2019s statement reads. \u201cAny and all parties responsible for this act of cyber-terrorism will be held responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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