“When a team of hackers calling themselves “the Impact Group” claimed to break into spouse cheating site Ashley Madison last month, millions of users held their breaths:
“See, even though Ashley Madison confirmed there was a hack, no one had posted any actual user data yet.
“That changed on Tuesday evening (US time), when the Impact Group published a 10-gigabyte trove of user data — including names, phone numbers, email addresses and credit card fragments — to the Dark Web.
“While Ashley Madison has not confirmed that the information is authentic, several security researchers have already said that it appears to be: Multiple users have independently confirmed that their names appeared in the leak.”
Read more at SMH.com.au
