Ashley Madison hackers will withhold the private part photos

[Renew Deal]

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The Impact Team only agreed to answer questions via email. The following is a short Q&A with them, edited lightly for clarity.

MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard?
The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing to bypass.

When did you start hacking them? Years ago?
A long time ago. [Note: in a README file in the first data dump, the hackers wrote that they had been collecting information from the company "over the past few years."]

What other data from Avid Life Media do you have?
300GB of employee emails and docs from internal network. Tens of thousands of Ashley Madison user pictures. Some Ashley Madison user chats and messages. 1/3 of pictures are dick pictures and we won't dump. Not dumping most employee emails either. Maybe other executives.
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Will The Impact Team be hacking any other sites in the future? If so, what targets or sort of targets do you have in mind?
Not just sites. Any companies that make 100s of millions profiting off pain of others, secrets, and lies. Maybe corrupt politicians. If we do, it will be a long time, but it will be total.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ashley-madison-hackers-speak-out-nobody-was-watching

[short circuit]

1. how bloody nice of them...

I shudder to think of what the Republicans have put out....

[PoliticAverse]

2. "1/3 of pictures are dick pictures" - don't be a dick picture sender. n/t

[Taitertots]

10. No. We don't need psuedo-puritanical victim blaming on DU.

Don't STEAL personal data from other people's computers!

[Texasgal]

3. Meh.

Maybe you shouldn't send pictures of your private parts over the net? Yeah?

[Taitertots]

12. Victim blaming? Do you support revenge porn sites?

Or is your victim blaming limited to pictures of penises?

[alarimer]

4. Best not to reveal their shortcomings to the world.

i do not feel sorry for the cheaters one bit. I feel sorry for their families, their wives, partners and families. Something I do not get: if you are unhappy, why not leave or try to fix it? Why put your family through this betrayal just because you are unhappy? It is pretty damn cowardly to cheat.

[shenmue]

6. I think so too

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. "their wivces"? How about their husbands? Or am I mistaken and AM is an all male site?

That last question was completely facetious of course.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Like I said in another thread

If these assholes hacked a casual hookup site for closeted gay folks, nobody would be cheering this...

[alcina]

13. So true

I don't understand how anyone can think this is acceptable. Regardless of the intentions of the AM members, exposing people's personal information and deepest secrets like this is completely unjustifiable.

[Oneironaut]

5. They're getting greedy for attention. Very bad idea.

They very likely won't make it much longer. All it takes is one to get caught, and then the rest are screwed.

[Sam_Fields]

7. Dang it! I was hoping that I could see Miss Piggy nekkid!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/19/these-are-the-muppet-personals-found-on-ashley-madison/

Now that hackers have released the Ashley Madison files, news of Kermit and Miss Piggy’s breakup is less surprising. They, and other Muppets, have had profiles up on this and other popular dating sites for months.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Exactly what in fuck's name kind of explanation is this?

What were your motivations for the hack?

We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything. Finally we watched Ashley Madison signups growing and human trafficking on the sites. Everyone is saying 37 million! Blackmail users! We didn't blackmail users. Avid Life Media blackmailed them. But any hacking team could have. We did it to stop the next 60 million. Avid Life Media is like a drug dealer abusing addicts.


"We don't like this site and how they do business, so we're not going to hurt THEM, we're going to hurt the customers instead?" Bullshit hacker logic...

[mythology]

14. Actually they are doing a pretty good job of hurting the Ashley Madison business

It happens that the only way to do that is to take out their customer base, but given that I believe people who cheat on their spouse, or have an affair with somebody they know is married are assholes, I don't have any problem with it. I have no problems with people paying for their mistakes.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Well, that's you...

I don't pretend to be the grand moral decider on what sexual proclivities should or shouldn't be allowed in other people's marriages..

And I'm pretty sure when the smoke clears, AM will still be in business...All this is to them is a down financial quarter

[zappaman]

17. +1

[Nye Bevan]

15. I suspect that most male clients of Ashley Madison would prefer that their dick pics be revealed

as opposed to their name, email address and credit card transaction info.

[MineralMan]

18. What kind of idiot sends photos of

his genitalia? I don't see the point of displaying your shortcomings, really.

[Rex]

19. Wow people are going bonkers over some hacks of a sham website for cheating spouses!

I must say...not surprised in the least.