Ashley Madison: Hackers follow through on threat to release data from cheating website
Hackers have followed through on a threat to release a huge cache of data online, including customer information, that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website Ashley Madison.
The data was posted onto the dark web, meaning it is only accessible using a specialised browser.
But vast lists of hundreds of email addresses, including many linked to corporations and universities, sprouted up on other sites hours after the news broke.
The website's owner, Toronto-based company Avid Life Media, confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that the FBI was investigating last month's data breach.
The company lashed out at the hackers, saying they had appointed themselves as "the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society".
"These are illegitimate acts that have real consequences for innocent citizens who are simply going about their daily lives," it said in a statement.
The hackers, who call themselves The Impact Team, leaked snippets of the compromised data in July.
They then threatened to publish names of and salacious details pertaining to as many as 37 million customers unless Ashley Madison and Established Men, another site owned by Avid Life Media, were taken down.
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