WASHINGTON -鈥� This could get embarrassing: The latest entrant in the long list of companies whose data has been stolen by hackers is the marital-infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.
The site, whose slogan is 鈥淟ife is short. Have an affair,鈥� boasts 37 million users. Avid Life Media, the Toronto-based company that owns Ashley Madison, as well as related sites such as Cougar Life, Established Men and ManCrunch, confirmed to security expert and former Washington Post聽cybercrime reporter Brian Krebs of on Sunday that it had been hacked.
CEO Noel Biderman said that the company was 鈥渨orking diligently and feverishly鈥� to take its intellectual property down.
The hackers, who go by the name The Impact Team, have published random snippets of user accounts already, as well as company information such as server maps and employee information, Krebs says. They say they published because ALM supposedly lied to their customers about a service that could completely erase user information for $19.
鈥淔ull Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It鈥檚 also a complete lie,鈥� the hacking group wrote.
鈥淭oo bad for those men, they鈥檙e cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,鈥� the hackers continued. 鈥淭oo bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn鈥檛 deliver.鈥�
鈥淲e鈥檙e not denying this happened,鈥� Biderman said, but added, 鈥淟ike us or not, this is still a criminal act.鈥�
He tells Krebs that the company is 鈥渙n the doorstep鈥� of figuring out who hacked them, saying it may have been someone on the inside 鈥� someone who 鈥渨as not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services.鈥�
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