A group of hackers who call themselves The Impact Team have threatened to expose the identities of the tens of millions of people who use hookup website Ashley Madison.
The controversial website, which uses the tagline “Life is Short. Have an affair”, provides a matchmaking service for people already in relationships. It has more than 37 million anonymous members.
The hackers claimed to have taken control of all Ashley Madison’s production domains, customer information databases, financial records and emails. They demanded that Ashley Madison and Established Men, a website owned by the same parent company, Avid Life Media, be shut down immediately in order to prevent the release of that hacked data.
“Shutting down AM and EM will cost you, but non-compliance will cost you more,” the group said.
“We will release all customer records, profiles with the customers’ secret sexual fantasies, nude pictures and conversations and matching credit cards transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.”
The release of that information would leave Avid Life exposed to legal action, the group claimed.
Avid Life Media chief executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack to KrebsOnSecurity and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to remedy it.
“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”
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