About 37 million user profiles of www.ashleymadison.com, the internet cheating site that allows married men and women to get together indiscriminately are in danger of getting publicly exposed online, according to a report from krebsonsecurity.com, . The same report identified the hackers as the Impact Team, the so-called group that inadvertently gained access to the site's user data threatens to provide the names of its members if it is not taken down immediately. Other pertinent information that the group might release are credit card information, real names used, as well as the user's sexual preferences.
In another report from money.cnn.com, Avid Life Media has stated on securing their sites and immediate closure of their unauthorized online access points. They are also working with law enforcement who are investigating this form of cybercrime. The hackers are said to have retaliated with threatening the release due to alleged lies by Avid Life Media, the site's parent company, regarding lying about the $19 service fee for members to delete their online profiles completely. The service called Full Delete reportedly netted a total of $1.77 million alone in revenue for ALM.
A snippet of demands left behind by the Impact Team can be viewed here. The said breach was confirmed by CEO Noel Biderman. The website's intellectual property information is being religiously worked on in the hope of getting it removed to avoid further compromise of their user's identities. The Toronto-based company also owns related sites such as Established Men and Cougar Life.
According to a report by theguardian.com, a journalist listed herself as a member during the wake of the investigation and was transferred from rep to rep in the hopes of getting assured that none of her records were compromised, as reported on theguardian.com.
A previous report from the dailymail.co.uk mentioned another hookup dating site called AdultFriendFinder.com as the first victim of the internet hack just two months before the Ashley Madison site attack.
