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Title: Ashley Madison hack names 15,000 US government workers
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From The Trenches/Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldrepo ... 0-us-government-workers/140018
Published: Aug 20, 2015
Author: Andrew Midkiff
Post Date: 2015-08-20 10:13:47 by Deckard
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Thousands of cheating spouses working in the highest quarters of the U.S. government have been identified today in a major global hack of adultery dating site Ashley Madison. Users of the infidelity site were sent scrambling to control the damage – and save their marriages – after hackers exposed them and dumped 9.7 gigabytes of personal data about the controversial seduction forum used by 37 million worldwide. Names, ages, addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and detailed sexual fantasies have been leaked. 15,000 users have been found to be registered under .gov and .mil email addresses – the official domain names of the American military and government. Other institutions rocked by the leaks include famed educational institutions like Harvard and Yale, and global bodies such as the Vatican and the UN. Employers from huge companies such as Boeing, JP Morgan, Bank of America and Sony were also said to be part of the list. The website has long boasted about their D.C. recruits – claiming 59,000 residents are currently members. The district has had the highest number of registrations across America for the last three years. Many of the leaked profiles show how users were sharing their political beliefs in a bids to entice like-minded potential lovers. Profiles come entitled, ‘a Democrat who loves to kiss’ or ‘Staunchly Non-Republican but otherwise very open-minded’, according to the Washington Post However, those thousands who hoped their public profile would be limited to their broad political beliefs were given a rude awakening this morning. A file entitled ‘Time’s Up!’ was posted on the dark web by a group of hackers dubbing themselves ‘Impact Team’ who said they wanted to expose the globe’s ‘cheating dirtbags’. The group has been threatening Avid Life Media with the information for some weeks – leaking small amounts as they went. They demanded the website and it’s sister site Established Men be taken down but the dating firm refused to be blackmailed. So the group decided to make it’s move with a huge data dump which has already given rise to a number of search engines promising concerned spouses the ability to check if their partners are listed through names, emails and even phone numbers. ‘Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data’, Impact Team said in their statement. ‘Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. ‘Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.’ Ashley Madison, which is known as the ‘Google of cheating’, has called the data breach ‘an act of criminality’ and the FBI is now investigating. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3203795/Fifteen-thousand-U-S-government-workers-including-White-House-staff-37-million-cheating-spouses-identified-hack-Ashley-Madison-adultery-dating-site.html#ixzz3jM67nSVC
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Are Barrack & Reggie Love listed ? LOL!!!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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