Hackers allegedly went online data portal users contact Ashley Madison, a website for people looking for an affair.
According to reports from International magazine “Wired”, the stolen file causes around one month contains 9.7 gigabytes and is available in the “darknet” through the Tor software, which allows people to communicate anonymously.
The file contains data apparently profiles of about 32 million users, including names, addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords.
The company, Headquartered in Canada, active since 2001, he said in a statement that they are investigating the incident and working in checking the authenticity of the data and eliminating information published illegally.
Among those who doubt the data is authentic figure hung former technical chief Ashley Madison, Raja Bhatia, who from information theft is a consultant for the company.
“We see every day between 30 and 80 publications alleged “said computer security expert Brian Krebs, who in July reported the hacking. According to Bhatia, most of these published data from other sources.
Graham Cluley, security expert also emphasized in his blog that although the data might not be genuine conclusions because Ashley Madison not answer calls after receiving a confirmation email.
Thus, the database names of people who never had anything to do might appear contact the company.
As pointed out in his blog researcher Robert Graham, the file contains information about 28 million men and five million women, with information also includes features like weight or height.
He adds that many profiles are made using false with the intention of drawing attention to the web data and submits that data on credit cards make reference to transactions, not numbers of them.
The journalist Sam Biddle, the portal “Gawker” he said about it on his Twitter that he found in the data he published a profile himself created to document when preparing an article on dating over the Internet.
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