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Infidelity website Ashley Madison's hackers say 'nobody was watching' -report

Published 2015-08-21, 06:45 p/m
© Reuters. Infidelity website Ashley Madison's hackers say 'nobody was watching' -report

NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Hackers who stole a trove of
sensitive data from AshleyMadison.com said "nobody was watching"
as they scoured the infidelity website and vowed to release
more emails from its executives, online technology website
Motherboard reported on Friday.
The tech website it was given a contact email address for
the hackers, who call themselves the Impact Team, by an
intermediary. The hackers replied with a message signed with the
same signature and fingerprint, known as a PGP key, posted with
the Ashley Madison data dumps this week, Motherboard said.
"We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and
get everything," the website quoted the hackers as saying.
"Nobody was watching. No security."
Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the release.
Representatives of Ashley Madison's parent company Avid Life
Media could not immediately be reached for comment.
Cyber security experts said data dumps on Tuesday and
Thursday by the group appeared to be authentic. Tuesday's
release had customer information that included U.S. government
officials, British civil servants and high-level executives at
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Motherboard reported that in its exchange with the hackers,
they said they had 300 gigabytes of employee emails and internal
documents, "tens of thousands of Ashley Madison users pictures"
and user chat messages from the site. On Tuesday, hackers
released 10 gigabytes of data.

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