SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack. It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website...

KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I cant predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, its fair to say the series will explore...

What are Dating Apps Doing to Protect Their Users?

A very public affair When asked about the pitfalls and problems behind using dating apps, users cite data security as one of the most worrying elements of online dating. Since the Ashley Madison breach in July 2015, online dating sites have repeatedly been under media scrutiny for the poor...

A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

Its been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many Ashley Madison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the...

A week in security (January 27 – February 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the strengths and weaknesses of the Zero Trust model, gave you the low-down on spear phishing, and took a delve into the world of securing the managed service provider MSP. Other cybersecurity news UN compromised via Sharepoint hack: An extraordinary...

Ashley Madison Breach Extortion Scam Targets Hundreds

Nearly five years after the high-profile Ashley Madison data breach, hundreds of impacted website users are being targeted by a new extortion attack this past week. The 2015 data breach of the adultery website led to 32 million accounts being publicly dumped online, including victims’ names,...

Ashley Madison to Pay $11.2 Million to Data Breach Victims

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a massive data breach two years ago. Though the parent company of Ashle...

Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to pay a hefty fine of $1.6 Million for failing to protect account information of 36 Million users, after a massive data breach last year. Yes, the parent company...

THN Weekly Roundup — 15 Most Popular Cyber Security and Hacking News Stories

We are once again here with our weekly round up based on last week’s top cyber security threats and challenges. I recommend you to read the entire thing just click ‘Read More’ because there’s some valuable advice in there as well. Here’s the list: 1. Reminder! If You have not yet, Turn Off Window...

These Top 30 Ashley Madison Passwords are just as Terrible as You'd Think

Yes, you heard it correct! First the Password Cracking Team 'CynoSure Prime' cracked more than 11 Million Ashley Madison’s passwords in just 10 days quite an achievement, though, now a member of the team shares the same list of passwords with few calculations. The calculations are... ...What...

Password Cracking Group Decodes 11 Million Ashley Madison Passwords

A San Diego-based password cracking group has taken a big step towards deciphering some of the 36 million odd passwords leaked in last month’s Ashley Madison breach, a move that could quickly lead to the widespread hacking of any users who used the same password on other services. Hackers had...

11 Million Ashley Madison Passwords Cracked In Just 10 Days

Last month, when hackers leaked nearly 100 gigabytes of sensitive data belonging to the popular online casual sex and marriage affair website 'Ashley Madison', there was at least one thing in favor of 37 Million cheaters that their Passwords were encrypted. But, the never ending saga of Ashley...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I

If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong. Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed acro...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Ashley Madison Breach and the Wyndham Data Breach Decision

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the quasi-interesting fallout from the Ashley Madison hack, the appeals court decision about the Wyndham data breaches, and Charlie Miller leaving Twitter. Download: digitalunderground217.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Disgusting! Ashley Madison was Building an App – 'What's your Wife Worth?'

We could expect Ashley Madison to cross any limits when it comes to cheating, but this is WORSE. After all the revelations made by the Impact Team past week, this was something different from the leaked data that had names, password and other details of Ashley Madison clients. A dump from the...

Ashley Madison Hacker – An Insider Woman Employee?

"Ashley Madison was not hacked!" This is what declared by John McAfee, former founder of antivirus software company McAfee. So far everyone must be aware of Ashley Madison massive data breach. Last week, the hackers, who called themselves Impact Team, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of...

Hack Leads to Extortions and Suicides! Ashley Madison puts $500,000 Bounty on Hackers' Head

It's been a rough week for cheating website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short, have an affair." Last week, the Impact Team, who claimed to hack Ashley Madison, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of Millions of its customers, including their names and email addresses. The hackers...

Ashley Madison Hackers (with another 300GB Dump) – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't Yet Done

Over a month ago, a group of hackers breached the popular cheater's dating service Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media, affecting tens of Millions site customers private life and also dump the website's source code onto the dark web. The hackers behind the Ashley Madison hack, w...

Ashley Madison 2.0 — Hackers Leak 20GB Data Dump, Including CEO's Emails

The Impact Team – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't yet done. The group of hackers behind the breach of Ashley Madison, the popular cheater's dating service, have released a second, even much bigger 'cheat sheet' exposing sensitive materials that include sensitive corporate information. Two days ago, th...

Ashley Madison Hackers Finally Released All the Stolen Data Online

Well, Cheaters are about to have a very Bad Night Today! Hackers who claimed to have stolen customers' data from Ashley Madison, the popular online casual sex and cheating website with a tagline "Life is short. Have an affair," recently leaked nearly 10GB of its users' personal data online. The...