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ID Thieves, Blackmailers Have Lots To Gain In Ashley Madison Breach

Hackers who compromised online hook-up site Ashley Madison dumped data on the dark web. The dark web is someplace the average Internet user never goes, but a great deal of criminal activity takes place there. The data dump includes 28 million unique email addresses, including large clusters from Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Bank of America, and BP. The attackers stuck ALM between a rock and a hard place: they could either shut the site down voluntarily or continue business as usual, wait for the attackers to leak the database.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/id-thieves-blackmailers-have-lots-to-gain-in-ashley-madison-breach

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