Ashley Madison Hacked, With Threats to Release User Information Unless Site Shuts Down

Cheating website AshleyMadison.com was hacked, and confidential customer information was stolen from the company, Techvibes reported. Hackers have threatened to release all customer information of Ashley Madison’s 37 million members worldwide if the site does not shut down.
As quoted in the publication:

The data stolen includes “all customer information databases, source code repositories, financial records, emails,” according to the Impact Team, the hacker group that took responsibility for the attack. That includes “profiles with all customers’ secret sexual fantasies, nude pictures, and conversations and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.”
The hackers seem to have an issue with Ashley Madison’s “Full Delete” feature, which promises to erase all data associated with an account for a fee of $19. The feature, which the hackers say earned the site nearly $2 million in revenue last year, is “a complete lie,” claiming the feature does not remove all information. Avid Life Media contests this.

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