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In July 2015, an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker (s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying information if ...
- Avid Life Media Employees Get 'Thunderstruck'
- Impact Team Announces Hack of Ashley Madison
- Avid Life Media Responds
- Impact Team Releases Two Ashley Madison User Names
- 'Time's Up' For Ashley Madison: The First Data Dump
- Another Statement from Avid Life Media
- Ashley Madison User Emails Published by Category
- First Data Dump Confirmed Real
- Ashley Madison Search Websites Appear
- Impact Team Claims to Have 300GB of Ashley Madison Data - "No Security"
July 12, 2015: Avid Life Media (Ashley Madison's parent firm) employees log in to find a message from Impact Teamthreatening to release company and customer data unless the Ashley Madison and Established Men websites are shut down. Impact Team's ransom message is accompanied by the AC/DC song "Thunderstruck."
July 19, 2015: Impact Team publishes their warning message on Pastebin, this time setting a 30 day window for Avid Life Media to shut down the sites before the information is released. The warning is followed by an article from security journalist Brian Krebsannouncing the Ashley Madison data breach.
July 20, 2015: Avid Life Media issues two statements acknowledging “an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems” and announcing a joint investigation conducted by Ashley Madison, law enforcement, and the cybersecurity service provider Cycura.
July 22, 2015: Impact Team releases the names and information of two Ashley Madison users- a man from Brockton, MA and a man from Ontario, Canada - in the first data leak to come from the hack.
August 18, 2015: Impact Team's 30 day window expires, but Ashley Madison and Established Men are still online. In a Pastebin post titled "TIME'S UP," Impact Team publishes the first major Ashley Madison user data dump, a torrent file containing nearly 10gb of user email addresses. Media outlets and researchers alike scramble to analyze and validate...
August 18, 2015: Following the first data dump, Avid Life Media issues another statement on the hackdetailing their investigation and asking for information on the incident.
August 18, 2015: A categorical breakdown of the email addresses disclosed in the first data dump is posted to Pastebin, revealing many government, military, and corporate addresses that were used to sign up for Ashley Madison accounts.
August 18-19, 2015: After a nearly day-long media frenzy met with much speculation over the validity of the leaked data, Brian Krebs discloses that numerous Ashley Madison account holders have confirmed that their information was published.
August 19-20, 2015: As researchers continue to sift through the first data dump, search websites pop upthat let users search to see if their email addresses were leaked.
August 21, 2015: In an interview with Vice, Impact Team claims to have over 300 gigabytesof hacked Ashley Madison data. When asked to provide details about their attack, Impact Team claims that it was easy: "We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing to bypass." As for Avid Life Media's security, "Bad. Nobody wa...
Aug 20, 2015 · High-profile hackers, including Ross Ulbricht, of Silk Road, have been caught because they inadvertently left identifiable information on Tor sites. The Grugq has also warned about the dangers of...
May 15, 2024 · In July 2015, a group of anonymous internet sleuths called The Impact Team hacked Ashley Madison’s website — stealing user account data for its 37 million users and threatening to post it...
Jul 7, 2023 · When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was ...
Aug 6, 2023 · The Ashley Madison hack is one of the biggest cybercrimes in internet history. It remains unsolved, and some of the more insidious aspects of the story remain obscure.
May 30, 2024 · Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015 by an anonymous party which called itself the The Impact Team. They demanded that the company cease operations within 30 days, or else it would leak the data.
