Hackers dump Ashley Madison data online

Just in case things couldn’t get any worse for Ashley Madison, the site that encourages people to have extramarital affairs, here’s another round of bad news. The hackers, who call themselves Impact Team, have dumped over 10GB of the stolen data on the dark web. Those who got access to these said they’ve found some pretty juicy information. The hackers said they posted the data online because Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison, refused to take the site down.

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Ashley Madison breach raises another red flag on online security

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Ashley Madison's entire business plan is hinged on their ability to securely store customer's information including intimate photographs, personal profiles and chats. The website was recently hacked and 37 million customer's accounts were reportedly taken and hackers are threatening to leak all this information online unless the site is completely shut down.

Ashley Madison is a website and online community that unabashedly encourages people to have extramarital affairs. It is a dating site designed around making it easy to find various attached partners for casual encounters and no-strings attached sex.

Ashley Madison's entire business plan is hinged on their ability to securely store customer's information including intimate photographs,  personal profiles, sexual fantasies and intimate chats. Their homepage boasts a 'Trusted Security Award,' it promises a '100 % Discreet Service,' and is an 'SSL Secured Site.'

Despite this, Ashley Madison was recently hacked and 37 million customer's accounts, mostly from the US and Canada, were reportedly taken and hackers are threatening to leak all this information online unless the website property is closed down. 

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