In July 2015,Online website Ashley Madison get compromised and whole data till date was stolen by (The Impact Team) hackers.The hacked data include the financial record and private information of company and client like Credit card,email,password etc...After hacking the data of ashley madison by the impact team,they released the small dump to show the online as proof of the attack.It has been calculable that around 37 million users are in risk of seeing their affairs and fantasy exposed to the general public if all the information in hand by hackers is leaked.The The Impact Team leaked the info as a result of Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, refused their demand to take down the site.
The impact team stated:
One day ago,the impact team leaked the 9.69 GB of data online which contain the information like
- Username
- First and Last Names
- Encrypted passwords
- Credit Card data
- Address
- Phone Numbers
Now,today again unknown hackers not the Impact Team leaked the 18.55 GB of data which is nearly double than earlier.The second dump file not only contain the data of ashley madison but also the data of parent company Avid Life Media.These leaked information connected monetary transactions of the corporate show that Ashley Madison created quite $600 million.
According to expert,who analyzed the dump of leaked data said dump of the information leaked files appear legit. It contains the subsequent information:
33 million accounts and user personal info, as well as names, street addresses, email addresses, signal and mastercard transactions.It also contain nearly 1GB of biderman's emails.
Avid Life Media that owns the Ashley Madison statement on Tuesday to inform its users:
“This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality. It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities,” Avid Life Media wrote in its statement. “The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world. We are continuing to fully cooperate with law enforcement to seek to hold the guilty parties accountable to the strictest measures of the law.”
And now more worst part is,password of the leaked account is available on github in unencrypted form.As previously the impact team and the unknown hacker team published the Hashed password.
