Data leaked from 37 million users of the infamous website Ashley Madison. According to a post by Ars Technica, personal data is now available on the internetnetwork, and released with a BitTorrent file.
According to the publication, the data has 10GB volume and is all personal (emails, user profiles, transaction data credit cards and much more).
The attackers hackers, a group called The Impact, released the data of Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison.
The hacker group warns that some of the information is fake, especially the information about the Women:
Did you find someone you know? Keep in mind that the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. 90-95% of actual users are male.
One of the most devastating aspects of the hack is the revelation that personal information of users who had paid $19 to have all of their user data deleted from the site still exist.
The feature It brought in $1.700.000 million for Avid Life Media, but the team believes it never worked as advertised by the company.
Among the data leaked are the credit card details of the site, which have been confirmed as true, according to the founder of the PasswordsCon service, Per Thorshim:
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Any data not signed with key 6E50 3F39 BA6A EAAD D81D ECFF 24373CD5 74AB AA38 is fake.
Ashley Madison Leak
Impact Team's statement on the release
Impact Team's PGP signature for the released statement
Impact Team's PGP Key
Torrent for the released data