# AshleyMadison Hacked
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697 "2015-07-20T08:25:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/1 "2015-07-20T08:25:15Z")
[https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/)
The data released by the hacker or hackers — which self-identify as **The Impact Team** — includes sensitive internal data stolen from [Avid Life Media](http://www.avidlifemedia.com/) (ALM), the Toronto-based firm that owns AshleyMadison as well as related hookup sites **Cougar Life** and **Established Men**.
Reached by KrebsOnSecurity late Sunday evening, **ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman** confirmed the hack, and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property. Indeed, in the short span of 30 minutes between that brief interview and the publication of this story, several of the Impact Team’s Web links were no longer responding.
“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”
Besides snippets of account data apparently sampled at random from among some 40 million users across ALM’s trio of properties, the hackers leaked maps of internal company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information.
The compromise comes less than two months after intruders [stole and leaked online user data](http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/22/technology/adult-friendfinder-hacked/) on millions of accounts from hookup site **AdultFriendFinder**.
In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers [about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee](http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/cheaters-hook-up-site-ashley-madison-makes-account-deletion-confusing/).
According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.
“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”
Their demands continue:
“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online.”
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/2 "2015-07-20T08:37:57Z")
HOLY SHIT!
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### Author:  [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/3 "2015-07-20T08:55:26Z")
I dont get the point of the website, do girls really go online and make an account so they can cheat on their husband… I mean are there really girls doing this or are a bunch of dudes being gay.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/4 "2015-07-20T08:56:33Z")
I wanna know how many of the 40 million users are single guys pretending to be married.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/5 "2015-07-20T08:59:22Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> I wanna know how many of the 40 million users are single guys pretending to be married.
my thought exactly… I bet 10% or less are real cheater accounts.
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### Author:  [@bracketracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bracketracer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/6 "2015-07-20T08:59:48Z")
> [@Wahoo](#):
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> do girls really go online and make an account so they can cheat on their husband… I mean are there really girls doing this ?
Yes
And I will clarify. I have never been on that site.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/7 "2015-07-20T09:01:26Z")
Well AdultFriendFinder got hacked not that long ago and it was a bunch of Execs and Gov employees and random other semi important people this should be fun.
I’m mostly interested in the password dump
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/8 "2015-07-20T09:08:22Z")
I find this hilarious, for a bunch of reasons.
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### Author:  [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/9 "2015-07-20T09:10:42Z")
> [@bracketracer](#):
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> Yes
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> And I will clarify. I have never been on that site.
I mean, if a girl is pretty generally they dont need to go online to find someone to cheat on their husband with.
I guess if shes not, then i see the need for catfishing on AM lol.
She meets up with a dude and hes like damn it, well itll be quick.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/10 "2015-07-20T09:45:41Z")
How much credibility to we give hackers tho? I mean these unknown groups dump a user database. Do we trust that the list if a full list? It could be in their best interest to add some fake accounts that reference true names.
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### Author:  [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/11 "2015-07-20T10:08:17Z")
Maybe its really f society
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/12 "2015-07-20T10:14:03Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> How much credibility to we give hackers tho? I mean these unknown groups dump a user database. Do we trust that the list if a full list? It could be in their best interest to add some fake accounts that reference true names.
Because 99% of the time the dumps are complete and accurate?
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### Author:  [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/13 "2015-07-20T10:16:22Z")
HAHAHA. Thatd be funny if BO was busted
And yea, theres no doubt in my mind that women go online to cheat…how many women are “in love” with 50 shades of grey"
Screwed up
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/14 "2015-07-20T10:18:09Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> Because 99% of the time the dumps are complete and accurate?
Based on what? Companies saying “Yep… that’s us.”
Not saying dumps are corrupt but there could be bigger gains as well adding a few puppet accounts into those dumps targeting certain individuals in the public spotlight.
> [@rugsr](#):
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> And yea, theres no doubt in my mind that women go online to cheat…
> Screwed up
It’s called Facebook.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/15 "2015-07-20T10:23:26Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> Based on what? Companies saying “Yep… that’s us.”
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> Not saying dumps are corrupt but there could be bigger gains as well adding a few puppet accounts into those dumps targeting certain individuals in the public spotlight.
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> Its called Facebook.
Because I have worked with a number of these companies post breach?
Honestly the way society deals with infidelity with public officials isn’t going to cause a ton of outrage or some serious desired outcome. If this site got hacked and they grabbed specific info(messages, pics) about specific people(execs, gov employees) it has way more usefulness(blackmail ceo, combine with OPM hack for leverage) vs dumping the entire thing for the public to make determinations.
When the information is already and out there you have nothing to gain…Fuck the president got a blowjob from an intern and life went on :lol:
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/16 "2015-07-20T10:53:58Z")
There has been dumps and user databases that have raised questions as well in the past. Not saying this is one but would ask the question what type of problems could you add by slipping in a few important names into this or other leaks that are publicly known.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/17 "2015-07-20T10:54:09Z")
I think the funniest thing will be when the database is made public, and someone creates a website to “check the database for your information”, there will be millions of spouses running searches for the SOs.
The credibility of the group is exactly the reason why they would never corrupt the data. If they get busted modifying the data in the dump, then they would lose ALL credibility for past, present and future work. Not really a chance they’re gonna want to take.
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### Author:  [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/18 "2015-07-20T14:21:10Z")
It’s read that EM (established men) was a site for rich men to buy/rent children for sex and promoted sex trafficking
scum bags
i hope they get brought to light and justice serves them right
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/19 "2015-07-21T10:17:33Z")
Pretty crazy that this was just apart of the storyline of Mr. Robot and now it’s happening on a wide scale. Is it possible that the show will have some sort of connection to a real life hack or am I just wearing a tin foil hat?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ashleymadison-hacked/272697/20 "2015-07-21T10:21:38Z")
> [@BOBBYGRV](#):
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> Pretty crazy that this was just apart of the storyline of Mr. Robot and now it’s happening on a wide scale. Is it possible that the show will have some sort of connection to a real life hack or am I just wearing a tin foil hat?
That show does a pretty decent job of keeping things fairly accurate with terms and techniques.
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