Infidelity
website Ashley Madison's hackers say 'nobody was
watching': report
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[August 22, 2015]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hackers who
stole a trove of sensitive data from AshleyMadison.com said "nobody was
watching" as they scoured the infidelity website and vowed to release
more emails from its executives, online technology website Motherboard
reported on Friday.
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The tech website said it was given a contact email address for the
hackers, who call themselves the Impact Team, by an intermediary.
The hackers replied with a message signed with the same signature
and fingerprint, known as a PGP key, posted with the Ashley Madison
data releases this week, Motherboard said.
"We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get
everything," the website quoted the hackers as saying. "Nobody was
watching. No security."
David Kennedy, founder and security consultant at TrustedSec, said
that the latest download, which was released with the warning
"Time's Up!", appears to be authentic.
"We have explained the fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM [Ashley
Madison's parent company Avid Life Media] and their members. Now
everyone gets to see their data," the hackers said in a statement.
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Impact Team had threatened to publish names and nude photos and
sexual fantasies of customers unless Ashley Madison and Established
Men, another site owned by Avid Life Media were taken down.
Representatives of Avid Life Media could not immediately be reached
for comment.
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Cyber security experts said data dumps on Tuesday and Thursday by
the group appeared to be genuine. Tuesday's release had customer
information that included U.S. government officials, British civil
servants and high-level executives at European and North America
corporations.
Motherboard reported that in its exchange with the hackers, they
said they had 300 gigabytes of employee emails and internal
documents, "tens of thousands of Ashley Madison users pictures" and
user chat messages from the site. On Tuesday, hackers released 10
gigabytes of data.
Cyber security experts have said they expect more staged releases of
sensitive information.
(Reporting by Josephine Mason; Editing by Amran Abocar, Grant McCool
and Ken Wills)
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