Ashley Madison Data Leak: Even More Information Leaked, File Twice the Size of First Leak
Just a few days after a massive leak of data from the affair website Ashley Madison, even more data has been leaked out, Motherboard reports.
The first leak was almost 10 gigabytes (GB) in size, and it included customer information, emails and more. The new leak is twice the size at almost 20 GB. The hackers behind the leak are calling themselves "Impact Team."
A message posted on the "dark web" where the last leak of data was dumped is apparently directed toward Ashley Madison's parent company Avid Life Media's CEO Noel Biderman.
"Hey Noel, you can admit it's real now," the message reads. The message was signed with the same signature that the Impact Team used in the first leak.
The message is accompanied by a new torrent file that leads to a large archive of almost 20 GB. Some of the file names show that this data leak may be internal information related to Ashley Madison and Avid Life Media, rather than additional customer information. For instance, there is a folder called "noel.biderman.mail.7z," which could be Biderman's personal emails. Other internal data can be found in this torrent as well.
Ashley Madison has tried to deny the validity of these data dumps over the past few days. Raja Bhatia, Avid Life Media's chief technology officer, spoke with security journalist Brian Krebs. Bhatia believes the data dumps are fake.
"On a daily basis, we're seeing 30-80 different claimed dumps come online, and most of these dumps are entirely fake and being used by other organizations to capture the attention that's been built up through this release," Bhatia said.
If the second data breach is indeed real, Ashley Madison might be forced to confess exactly what user information has been leaked, according to Reuters. So far, the company has remained silent on the reported leak of user data that could affect over 30 million users.
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