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July 26, 2022

A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

This post was originally published on this siteIt’s 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 perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of Ashley Madison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny. As first […]
July 7, 2023

Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

This post was originally published on this siteWhen the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data. The new documentary, The Ashley Madison Affair, begins airing today on Hulu in the United States and on […]