Stolen data from the adult dating site Ashley Madison have been revealed by a group of hackers, who call themselves Impact Team. The information was dumped into cyber space for others to discover on the Dark Web.
Avid Life Media, the company behind the Ashley Madison website for extra-marital affairs, admitted that indeed "individual or individuals responsible for this attack claim to have released more of the stolen data," BBC News reported.
In a released statement, Canada-based Avid Life Media said the hack as "an act of criminality," and it has been fully cooperating with law enforcement to find the hackers, who at first made a breach into their system in July.
The Impact Team, who believes to be doing something moral and just has demanded for the company to take down the web pages of Ashley Madison and Established Men - a sister site that connects wealthy men to "young, beautiful women."
"We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.... Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See Ashley Madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters," the Impact Team wrote in a statement accompanying the online dump late Tuesday, according to Wired
The data aquired from Ashley Madison had been revealed in a data dump, which includes the login details of about 32 million users - all seeking extra-marital or illicit affairs -and sensitive information such as their names, email and street addresses, how much they have spent on the site and even what they are looking for in a potential cheating partner, according to Fortune Magazine
Publication Wired.com noted that one of the email addresses in the dump claims to belong to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Ashley Madison claims to have 37 million users, with more than a million from the United States and the UK. The site is available in more than 50 countries, BBC said.
Information has spread across the Internet, with users on social sites like Twitter and 4chan identifying and contacting users, according to the Awl.
