“Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber-terrorism will be held responsible.” We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act. “At this time, we have been able to secure our sites, and close the unauthorised access points.
“The current business world has proven to be one in which no company’s online assets are safe from cyber-vandalism, with Avid Life Media being only the latest among many companies to have been attacked, despite investing in the latest privacy and security technologies. In a statement, ALM said: “We apologise for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our customers’ information. It was definitely a person here that was not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services.” “I’ve got their profile right in front of me, all their work credentials. “We’re on the doorstep of who we believe is the culprit, and unfortunately that may have triggered this mass publication,” he said. The company’s chief executive, Noel Biderman, said he believed the hack was carried out by a member of staff. No access: Ashley Madison apologised to customers and blamed "cyber-vandalism" “Our team of forensics experts and security professionals, in addition to law enforcement, are continuing to investigate this incident and we will continue to provide updates as they become available.” “We have always had the confidentiality of our customers’ information foremost in our minds and are pleased that the provisions included in the DMCA have been effective in addressing this matter. “Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has now successfully removed the posts related to this incident as well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our users published online. The company has said it had managed to remove the details of those who had had their personal information published on the Internet already.Ī spokesman said: “Following the earlier unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our system, Avid Life Media immediately engaged one of the world’s top IT security teams to take every possible step toward mitigating the attack. “Full Delete netted ALM $1.7m in revenue in 2014. “ Users almost always pay with credit card their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed,” they said. "They’ll profit from this in a big way, especially with the size of this database."Ĭlaims: Hackers claim Ashley Madison has "lied" about a "full delete" functionīut the hackers say that that claim is “a complete lie”. They have a better chance of selling on to someone else or to a 'Blackcat Market' on the 'Deep Web'. "I don’t think they're going to release them. The expert named only as 'Vinnie' told Sky News: "They claim that they are going to give all the information out, especially credit card details and all the other 'links' and the 'hashes'. The salacious website Ashley Madison "guarantees" people seeking to cheat on their husbands or wives they will "find someone".īut a hacking insider claims The Impact Team has no intention of exposing the details - but instead wants to sell credit card details on to criminals for a huge profit Hackers who are threatening to expose millions of cheating Brits using the website Ashley Madison are pursuing profit not the moral highground, it has been claimed.Ī cybergroup calling itself The Impact Team has told bosses at the dating network to close down the site or they will release names and details of its 37million users.
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