Friday, August 21, 2015

So You Found Your Name (Or Your Executive's) In The Ashley Madison Data Dump. Now What Do You Do?

The other shoe has dropped. Impact Team, the hackers who threatened to release data on cheating site Ashley Madison's users last month, made good those threats, dumping a 9.7 gigabyte file including sensitive customer data to the deep web, accessible only via Tor. Since then, a handful of sites have sprung up to make it even easier to see whether or not an email address had an account associated with the cheating site. Media outlets are having a field day reporting on the names found, including a conservative family values advocate and various government officials.

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