Data from 37 million users of the infamous dating website Ashley Madison has been leaked. According to a report by Ars Technica, the personal data is now available online, and was released in a BitTorrent archive.
According to the publication, the data has a volume of 10GB and is all personal (emails, user profiles, credit card transaction data and much more).
The hackers who carried out the attack, a group called The Impact, released the data of Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison.
The hacker group warns that some of the data is falsified, especially the data for women:
Found someone you know? Please note that the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. 90-95% of the real users are men.
One of the most devastating aspects of the hack is the revelation that the personal information of users who had paid $19 to have all of their user data on the website deleted is still there.
The feature brought in $1.7 million to Avid Life Media, but the team believes it never worked as advertised by the company.
Among the leaked data are the website's credit card details, which have been confirmed as real, according to PasswordsCon founder Per Thorshim:
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Any data not signed with key 6E50 3F39 BA6A EAAD D81D ECFF 2437 3CD5 74AB AA38 is fake.
Ashley Madison Leak
Impact Team's statement on the release
Impact Team's PGP signature for the released statement
Impact Team's PGP Key
Torrent for the released data
