Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
Summary: AshleyMadison.com's parent company Avid Life Media posted a half-million Canadian dollar bounty for information leading to the arrest of the Impact Team, the hackers who leaked data on more than 30 million users. Krebs examines Twitter user Thadeus Zu, who tweeted a link to Ashley Madison's proprietary source code hours after the breach and posted the stolen user database more than 24 hours before Wired and ArsTechnica, while claiming in some tweets he was not part of the hack and using 'we' in others.
Why it matters: The Toronto Police said Avid Life employees first learned of the breach on July 12 when they arrived at work to find a threatening message from the Impact Team with AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck' playing - meaning the intrusion was already complete before anyone inside the company knew it had happened.
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