Hacked by AshleyMadison.com

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    AshleyMadison.com Adjuler Lovers Site has been hacked by a hacker or group of hackers calling themselves The Impact Team. Not only data from about 37-40 million customers (mainly from the USA and Canada), but also financial and internal information flowed into the network. Executive Director of Avid Life Media (ALM) Noel Biderman, which runs this site, confirmed the hack to KrebsOnSecurity on Sunday evening, saying that his company was urgently working to remove compromising information from public access.

    At the moment, it is known that crackers have published some of the customer information, a map of the company's internal servers, company bank accounts and employee salaries. A manifest published by crackers states that the group decided to publish customer data in response to the site offering customers to completely delete their profile for $ 19. According to the crackers, the service of completely deleting information from the site, including search history, credit card numbers and real names and addresses, did not actually delete this information completely. It is alleged that in 2014 the “removal service” brought the company about $ 1.7 million.

    As a result, crackers demand the complete shutdown of two sites owned by ALM: Ashley Madison and Established Men, otherwise, crackers promise to fully publish all the information about users of the sites, including their profiles, correspondence, credit card numbers, real names and addresses, and the same correspondence of company employees and internal documentation. Every day, crackers promise to post more and more information to the public domain until the above sites stop working.

    The ALM chief executive declined to discuss the details of the internal investigation, although he mentioned that it was moving very fast. He also said that most likely someone who had access to the company's internal network was involved in the hacking, although most likely it was not a company employee, but one of the contractors. The company's published release says that Cycura, including its technical director Joel Eriksson, was also involved in the investigation into this hack.

    It is worth noting that ALM is going to go public IPO this year, in the hope of attracting $ 200 million investment. It seems that these plans will have to wait.

    UPD: thanks to Haoose for the link to pastebin . Files are already killed.

    UPD2: the network has a full dump of 9GB data. The source is on the TOR network, but there is also on Piratebay.

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