SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:45:02 +0000

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.

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Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:55:45 +0000

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

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