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(Reuters) - Hackers claim to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses on dating website Ashley Madison and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site's clients unless it is shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported.

Ashley Madison's Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, confirmed the breach on its systems and said it had since secured its site and was working with law enforcement agencies to try to trace those behind the attack.

The hackers, who call themselves The Impact Team, leaked snippets of the compromised data online and warned they would release customers' real names, profiles, nude photos, credit card details and "secret sexual fantasies" unless their demands were met, Krebs said. (http://bit.ly/1fWNcar)

The hackers also demanded the closure of another of Avid Life Media's sites, sugar-daddy site "Established Men", but did not target the company's "CougarLife" site, which caters for women members looking for "a young stud".

Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair", has been planning to raise up to $200 million through an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.

The breach comes about two months after dating site Adult FriendFinder was compromised. That site has an estimated 64 million members.

The Impact Team, in a screengrab showing on the Krebs blog, say it had taken over Avid Media systems including customer databases, source code, financial records and emails.

"Shutting down AM (Ashley Madison) and EM (Established Men) will cost you, but non-compliance will cost you more," the hackers said.

They said users who had paid a fee to Avid Life to have their personal data permanently deleted had been lied to and the company had retained records, including credit card information.



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As a general rule, I can't stand hackers.furious

In this case, I'm finding it hard to muster much sympathy for the site that got hacked.wink



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I agree with FWM.

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Are these the same ones doing all the hacking?

For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would put so much on a Web site. Online anywhere.

Even stuff here can be traced back to the individual.



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I've been assuming that everything about me is open to scrutiny.

If someone tries to blackmail me, I'd be curious to know what they think I might pay to keep secret.

 

 



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I'm feeling nosy now. I'd really like to set up an account just to see if anyone I know is a cheater cheater. But then people would think I am a cheater, so I can't.

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ed11563 wrote:

I've been assuming that everything about me is open to scrutiny.

If someone tries to blackmail me, I'd be curious to know what they think I might pay to keep secret.

 

 

 What's that old saying? "If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me."

Or "let me tell you something about you that you don't know".



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I can't drum up sympathy for those who might have their info compromised. Don't cheat. Easy peasy.

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I wonder what this "Impact Team" is all about. Why they targeted these sites, and whatnot.

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NAOW wrote:

I'm feeling nosy now. I'd really like to set up an account just to see if anyone I know is a cheater cheater. But then people would think I am a cheater, so I can't.

 Me too. We could use aliases...



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Mellow Momma wrote:
NAOW wrote:

I'm feeling nosy now. I'd really like to set up an account just to see if anyone I know is a cheater cheater. But then people would think I am a cheater, so I can't.

 Me too. We could use aliases...

 I might shouldn't say this but... When this broke my DH told me the last time there was a big scandal about this site he signed up to see what the brouhaha was all about.  I remember the scandal.  It was about them putting advertising on trucks and driving them around where anyone could see them.  So my dummy DH signed up.  Apparently men have to pay a fee and women don't.  He said he looked around, didn't pay a fee, and left.  I told him I was going to use this excuse when I did something.    I saw it on tv so I had an affair!    Anyway, he says it's a lousy pick up site with desperate people.



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