Leaked Ashley Madison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
Summary: Leaked emails from AshleyMadison CEO Noel Biderman show that founding CTO Raja Bhatia told him in a November 30, 2012 message that he had exploited a security hole in nerve.com and obtained its entire user database, writing "They did a very lousy job building their platform. I got their entire user base." The Impact Team released a 30-gigabyte archive of Biderman's emails spanning January 2012 to July 7, 2015, and Toronto Police said employees discovered the breach on the morning of July 12, 2015, when they found their screens commandeered with the Impact Team's message and AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" playing.
Bottom line: Toronto Police reported two unconfirmed suicides associated with the leak of AshleyMadison customer profiles, and Avid Life Media posted a $500,000 reward for information leading to arrest and prosecution of the attackers.
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