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   From: lololol@divorces.com   
      
   AshleyMadison.com's owner said Tuesday it is examining a large   
   batch of data posted online by hackers who breached the website   
   last month.   
      
   A group calling itself Impact Team initially posted a sample of   
   the data online on July 19, giving the site's owner, Avid Life   
   Media, a month to shut down AshleyMadison.com and another site,   
   Establishedmen.com.   
      
   The group in part contested the moral position of Ashley   
   Madison, which caters to people seeking extramarital affairs.   
      
   Avid Life Media, based in Toronto, said in a statement that it   
   is "actively monitoring and investigating this situation to   
   determine the validity of any information posted online."   
      
   "This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of   
   criminality," the company said.   
      
   Avid Life Media has hired independent forensic investigators and   
   is working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario   
   Provincial Police, the Toronto Police Services and the FBI.   
      
   In a note on Pastebin, Impact Team claimed it had exposed the   
   fraud, deceit and stupidity of Avid Life Media, including links   
   to the files posted on the sharing service Mega and a torrent   
   file.   
      
   The file posted on Mega appears to be 8.68 GB and is titled   
   ashleymadison_db_dump. The links to the files on Mega, however,   
   were quickly disabled late Tuesday.   
      
   When a 40 MB sample of the data was released in July, Avid Life   
   Media said it used Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)   
   requests to get the material removed from online services, and   
   it appears to be taking the same tact this time around.   
      
   The sample data consisted of customer records, including email   
   addresses, and sales and marketing data.   
      
   At the time, Impact Team claimed it found the paid-for feature   
   to delete account registrations with Ashley Madison didn't in   
   fact work.   
      
   The website had charged $19 to scrub data. Avid Life Media   
   contested that assertion the feature didn't fully delete   
   information but subsequently stopped charging for it.   
      
   http://www.pcworld.com/article/2973094/security/hackers-release-   
   full-data-dump-from-ashley-madison-extramarital-dating-site.html   
       
      
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