Leaked Source Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports that Jordan Evan Bloom, a 32-year-old Ontario man who owned Defiant Tech Inc., was hired as a PHP developer at AshleyMadison.com in December 2014 and resigned in June 2015, less than a month before hackers stole data on 37 million users. Bloom launched LeakedSource three months later, and the RCMP arrested him in December 2017, saying he made approximately $250,000 selling hacked data that included information from the 2015 Ashley Madison breach.
Why it matters: The owner of a service that sold breached passwords was inside the company a month before its 37-million-user breach, and the RCMP's later press releases about the LeakedSource investigation omitted Bloom's name entirely, referring only to Defiant Tech.
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