KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:16:16 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore tantalizing new clues as to who may have been responsible for the attack.

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A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:04:51 +0000

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny.

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