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   Lolololol! to All   
   Hackers release new Ashley Madison data    
   28 Aug 15 05:06:35   
   
   XPost: alt.fat-smelly-hippie, alt.rectum.nearly.killed-um, alt.connecticut   
   XPost: alt.lefthanders   
   From: lololol@divorces.com   
      
   Hackers dropped a second, even larger cache of data from   
   extramarital dating service Ashley Madison on Thursday,   
   apparently annoyed by a statement on Wednesday from the   
   company’s CEO that stopped short of confirming the authenticity   
   of the initial data release.   
      
   The new data, from a group calling itself the Impact Team,   
   appeared to be bad news for the site’s operators rather than its   
   users: files were filled with emails from CEO Noel Biderman, as   
   well as source code for the site and its apps. Impact Team   
   released a terse statement signed: “Hey Noel, you can admit it’s   
   real now.”   
      
   As security experts, media and the curious were trawling through   
   the new information, the first political consequences of the   
   scandal have started to appear: US defense secretary Ash Carter   
   said the armed forces were looking into the apparent use of   
   thousands of .mil email addresses to sign up for Ashley Madison.   
   Adultery in the military is a prosecutable offense, reported The   
   Hill, which broke the news.   
      
   Josh Duggar, an already scandal-ridden reality show performer on   
   TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting (canceled after family members   
   accused him of abusing teenaged girls, including his sister),   
   reportedly had a paid account on the site.   
      
   Impact Team statements have focused on the company’s leadership   
   from the very beginning, referring to the CTO of Ashley   
   Madison’s owner, Avid Life Media, by his first name, Trevor.   
   “Well Trevor, welcome to your worst … nightmare,” read the first   
   statement from the hackers.   
      
   Brian Krebs, the security analyst who first reported the hack,   
   said it had the hallmarks of an inside job. “Early on, when I   
   broke this story a month ago today, the CEO confirmed that   
   they’d been hacked and he seemed pretty convinced it was   
   somebody who had legitimate access to their network at some   
   point and they had strong suspicions about who that person might   
   be.”   
      
   But if the company had its suspicions, it wasn’t able to act on   
   them in time. “The attackers had everything – not just the   
   internal database but reams of corporate documents,” Krebs said.   
      
   http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/20/hackers-new-   
   ashley-madison-data   
      
          
      
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