Infidels bare: hacked dating site Ashley Madison – Clarín.com

There were moments of anguish for millions of infidels. The Madison Ahsley website that dating married people who want an affair, admitted having been the victim of a computer attack. Earlier, a team of hackers claimed the coup and said he had agreed to “secret sexual fantasies of all customers, as well as credit card information.” There were private data of over 37 million users at risk. Some were published on the Internet.

Next, Avid Life Media, the owner of the site, acknowledged in a statement that “stringent security measures” failed to prevent cyber attacks. “We have secured our website and cancel unauthorized access,” said the company, which says it is working with authorities to determine who is behind the attack and denounce. “All those responsible for this act of cyberterrorism will have to bear the consequences,” he said in the text.

As concern grew, a specialized security site KrebsOnSecurity said that large amounts of the stolen data was in line . After the release of Ashley Madison said the crisis had already passed. “Our team has succeeded in eliminating the points related to this incident as well as any personally identifiable information that was published online on our users,” calmed down.

The attackers called themselves “Impact Team” . Computer security analysts said the hacker group decided to publish the information to show that the claim that Avid Life Media had removed the profile of users who had agreed to pay $ 19 to have their records erased, was not true. The company says that if the profile and any activity of those customers was removed. This feature “has reported $ 1.7 million in 2014. But ALM is a total lie,” they published hackers.

According KrebsOnSecurity when the incident was developing even threatened pirates signature to publish “all subscriber data, including their sexual nicknames, their credit card transactions, their identities and addresses” if they did not agree to “close down” the Ashley Madison dating sites and Established Men.

ALM decided in response to end the billing of that service deletion of all data as “privacy of our customers is our primary concern.” The company has refused to retain data such as name, address or bank references from former clients.