Ashley Madison hackers promise more attacks after likening website to ‘drug dealer abusing addicts’
The group said Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media were facilitating human trafficking and other abuses.
The hacking group behind the Ashley Madison breach compared the affair-seeking website to “a drug dealer abusing addicts” in an email exchange threatening to carry out more attacks.
In the exchange published on Friday by Vice Media’s Motherboard website, the group calling itself The Impact Team said that hacking Ashley Madison was easy because “nobody was watching” and the site had “no security”.
Motherboard said it contacted the group through “an intermediary” and verified the group’s PGP signature used for encrypting messaging.
In the exchange, the hacker group said Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media were facilitating human trafficking and other abuses.
“We watched Ashley Madison signups growing and human trafficking on the sites,” the group said. “Avid Life Media is like a drug dealer abusing addicts.”
The group, which leaked nearly 30 gigabytes of files including names and credit card data of users, and source code for the websites, said it had far more data, saying it included “300GB of employee emails and docs from internal network.”
The group also claimed to have “tens of thousands of Ashley Madison user pictures [and] some Ashley Madison user chats and messages.”
