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   Hackers who infiltrated cheating site AshleyMadison.com last   
   month have today acted on their threat to publish customer data   
   online.   
      
   A 9.7 gigabyte data file has been posted to the dark web   
   claiming to contain account details and log-ins of people who   
   use the social networking site.   
      
   If the file proves to be genuine, it could expose the secrets of   
   millions of married customers who use Ashley Madison to carry   
   out affairs.   
      
   The service promises its 37 million members worldwide complete   
   "anonymity" and has the motto: "Life is short. Have an affair".   
      
   Last month, hacking group the Impact Team claimed they had   
   stolen their details and threatened to publish all names,   
   addresses, credit card details and sexual demands unless the   
   site was shut down.   
      
   Today's dump appears to have all these details, with files that   
   contain titles such as "aminno_member_email.dump.gz,"   
   "CreditCardTransactions7z," and "member_details.dump.gz",   
   according to Ars Technica.   
      
   Impact Team says Ashley Madison members should not have   
   anonymity because they are "cheating dirtbags and deserve no   
   such discretion".   
      
   The hackers also stole details for members of Cougar Life, a   
   website for older women who want to date young men, and   
   Established Men, which helps "successful" men meet "young and   
   beautiful women".   
      
   They asked for Established Men to be taken offline, along with   
   Ashley Madison, but did not make the same request of Cougar   
   Life, suggesting they are more interested in exposing unfaithful   
   men.   
      
   "Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and   
   Established Men," Impact Team wrote in a statement accompanying   
   the online dump earlier today.   
      
   "We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and   
   their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.... Keep in   
   mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles.   
      
   "See Ashley Madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95 per cent of   
   actual users are male.   
      
   "Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair   
   site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction   
   matters."   
      
   The hackers said the consequences for victims of the breach was   
   not their responsibility.   
      
   "Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to   
   you. Prosecute them and claim damages.   
      
   "Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends.   
   Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it," they wrote.   
      
   But as Wired notes, Ashley Madison's sign-up process does not   
   require verification of an email address to set up an account.   
      
   This means addresses might have been used by others, and doesn't   
   prove that person used the site themselves.   
      
   One British Ashley Madison user, called Natalie, is one of the   
   1.2 million in the UK scared her husband will discover her   
   infidelity.   
      
   She says that she started using the site during a "rocky patch"   
   in her marriage, but has not logged since 2011.   
      
   She told The Sun last month: "Things with my husband improved   
   and I haven't logged in to the website in years. Now I feel sick   
   to my stomach that my past could come back to haunt me".   
      
   Canadian owners Avid Life Media believe a company insider may   
   have helped hackers grab the information.   
      
   CEO Noel Biderman, the self-styled "King of Infidelity" who set   
   up the website with his wife Amanda, believes that a hacker with   
   ties to the site's technical services is the culprit behind the   
   privacy breach.   
      
   "I've got their profile right in front of me, all their work   
   credentials. It was definitely a person here that was not an   
   employee but certainly had touched our technical services,"   
   Biderman told Krebs On Security.   
      
   Last month, experts warned the stolen data could be sold on to   
   criminal gangs or used to blackmail members.   
      
   One hacking insider, named only as Vinnie, told Sky News the   
   valuable data will likely be sold on the "Dark Web" to "the   
   highest bidder".   
      
   The cyber criminals had previously only published a small amount   
   of the information online.   
      
   The hackers have claimed that even cheaters who have paid Ashley   
   Madison to delete their information from its files are at risk -   
   making the site millions, but claim these details were never   
   fully deleted.   
      
   The website charges members £15 for what it says is a "full   
   delete" of information that should leave no footprint. However,   
   the hackers claim this service was a "complete lie".   
      
   "Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase   
   details are not removed as promised, and include real name and   
   address, which is of course the most important information the   
   users want removed," they said.   
      
   The security breach is bad news for Ashley Madison, which has   
   been battling to gain respectability after it was dubbed the   
   "Google of cheating".   
      
   It even hoped to float on the London Stock Exchange later this   
   year.   
      
   The Canadian company said in April it thought British investors   
   would be more likely to buy into the business because Europeans   
   have a more "laissez-faire" attitude to cheating.   
   However, even open-minded Europeans found Ashley Madison'   
   attempts to make money from adultery a step too far.   
      
   Many of the brokers it would have relied on to sell shares in   
   Britain refused to deal with the company, amid concerns that it   
   leads to family breakdowns.   
      
   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&obje   
   ctid=11499668   
      
         
      
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