Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?
Summary: A nearly 10-gigabyte trove of data was dumped to the Deep Web and torrent services over 48 hours, with files that Wired reported included names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card data and transaction information tied to AshleyMadison profiles, preceded by a message titled "Time's Up." AshleyMadison's founding CTO Raja Bhatia said his team of roughly a dozen investigators, working around the clock, had reviewed over 100GB of claimed dumps and saw no signs the latest release was legitimate, noting the site never stored credit card data and that any full card numbers in a dump did not come from the company.
What you should know: Bhatia said the company sees 30 to 80 claimed dumps come online daily, and the site never verified user email addresses, so a name or address appearing in a leaked file does not establish that the person was a real user.
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