Aug 19, 2015
Details of about 37-million users of the Ashley Madison cheating site have been dumped online as hackers make good on their promise to leak details gleaned from last month’s hack of the site. The details, which have yet to be confirmed as legitimate, are contained in a massive file that contains personal information and some credit card details of site users. Security expert Brian Krebs, writing on his Krebs on Security blog, believes the files could be the real deal – a fact he points out that Ashleymadison.com subscribers would wish otherwise.
Jul 21, 2015
Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. This is according to the KrebsOnSecurity blog, with says the still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37-million users of the hook-up service, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.”
Nov 18, 2014
Even as they rely more and more on mobile devices as a tool of convenience, people are growing wary of how their data can be shared and viewed – none more than those who choose to cheat. Two-thirds (67%) of users use their smartphones to contact their lovers – but over 80% are afraid that their device’s data will end up in the wrong hands.
