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   Hackers have stolen and leaked the personal details of users of   
   Ashley Madison — a site that hooks up people who want to have   
   affairs.   
      
   A group or individual known as The Impact Team claimed to be   
   behind the attack and that it had data on all of Ashley   
   Madison's 37 million users and its partner sites, Cougar Life   
   and Established Men, all owned by Canada's Avid Life Media (ALM).   
      
   The Impact Team claims to have access to the company's user   
   database and is threatening to release all of the information   
   unless the site is taken down. So far the group has released   
   40MB of data which include credit card details as well as   
   internal ALM files and documents.   
      
   ALM confirmed that the hack took place and told CNBC it has   
   managed to take down all the personal information that was   
   posted online by the hackers.   
      
   "Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has   
   now successfully removed the...posts related to this incident as   
   well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our   
   users published online," ALM said in an emailed statement.   
      
   "Our team of forensics experts and security professionals, in   
   addition to law enforcement, are continuing to investigate this   
   incident and we will continue to provide updates as they become   
   available."   
      
   'Complete lie'   
   It is unknown how many people managed to see the leaked adultery   
   site's personal details. Ashley Madison has always been a   
   controversial site. Earlier this year, in an op-ed for CNBC, the   
   service's CEO Noel Biderman explained why people cheat.   
      
   "Cheating is like the secret glue that keeps millions of   
   marriages together. I would cheat before I would leave," he said.   
      
   The Impact Team stated its reason for the hack which seemed to   
   relate around a data retention practice. The hackers said that   
   ALM had lied to users when it said it would remove personal   
   details from its sites for a $19 fee.   
      
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   The hackers claim that the full delete feature that Ashley   
   Madison advertises promises "removal of site usage history and   
   personally identifiable information from the site," but users'   
   purchase details -- including real name and address -- aren't   
   erased.   
      
   "Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It's also a   
   complete lie," the hacking group claimed in a manifesto,   
   according to Krebs on Security, the site that broke the story.   
      
   "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."   
      
   At the time of publication, CNBC was awaiting a comment from ALM   
   on Impact Team's accusations.   
      
   Former employee?   
   Speaking to specialist security blog "Krebs on Security,"   
   Biderman said that the work may have been done by a former   
   employee or contractor.   
      
   "We're on the doorstep of [confirming] who we believe is the   
   culprit, and unfortunately that may have triggered this mass   
   publication," Biderman said.   
      
   "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."   
      
   The Ashley Madison hack follows a similar attack on another   
   dating website called Adult FriendFinder earlier this year.   
      
   http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/adultery-site-ashley-   
   madison-hacked-user-data-leaked-n394986   
      
          
      
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