A group of hackers posted on the Internet a file that allegedly contains personal and financial data of users of the website Ashley Madison, which seeks to married couples who want to have an affair.
On July 20, Ashley Madison admitted having been the victim of a computer attack that jeopardized the confidentiality of about 37 million users thereof, and various technology websites posted Wednesday that the alleged file the data is already available for download on the Internet.
According to the website Ars Technica, it is a BitTorrent file that contains 9.7 gigabytes of data stolen, including you accounts email, profiles with height and weight of users, addresses, and information relating to transactions with credit cards.
In addition, also stolen data included Established portal Men, which brings together women with wealthy men and is owned by the same company that owns Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media.
Shortly after that technological media published the news Wednesday, Avid Life Media issued a statement in which he said the cyber attack was “a criminal act” and said he will devote a lot of resources to mitigate the damage.
Data They were hung at first in the “dark web”, a part of internet which is not accessible through conventional search engines and that only can be seen with a special browser.
The group of hackers autobautizado as Impact Team replaced the file available to all users on BitTorrent. “Now everyone can see your data (Ashley Madison). Remember that this website is a scam with fake profiles thousands of women,” said Impact Team to hang stolen information.
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