Ashley Madison

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2017
Ashley Madison agrees to an $11.2 Million settlement for a 2015 massive data breach

Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users affected by the 2015 massive data breach. Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a massive data breach in 2015. The site was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
10 Days to crack 11 Million Ashley Madison hashed passwords

Ashley Madison – A group of hackers which calls itself CynoSure Prime has cracked more than 11 Million hashed passwords protected with Bcrypt. How? Last month hackers breached the popular adultery website Ashley Madison and leaked online a dump containing data belonging to 37 Million users, including 37 Million of encrypted password. News of the day is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2015
Ashley Madison Users victims of extortion and phishing

Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2015
Dozens dating websites got breached by Russian hackers

A huge number of individuals are in danger because of massive attacks by Russian hackers, total 97 websites have been broken and most of them are dating sites. Security experts at Hold Security discovered that a significant amount of websites, including dating portals like the Ashley Madison, has been targeted by massive attacks managed by Russian hackers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2015
Ashley Madison, who hacked it? The Krebs’s opinion

Nearly 37 million users of Ashley Madison have been impacted, the popular investigator Brian Krebs has collected clues on the alleged culprit. The popular investigator Brian Krebs sustains to know the culprit of the Ashley Madison hack, which publicly leaked 37 million accounts belonging to the users of the adultery website. Brian Krebs disclosed the Twitter account, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2015
Ashley Madison offers a $500,000 reward for the culprits

Nearly 37 million users of Ashley Madison have been impacted, the company that owns the adultery website is offering a $500,000 reward to arrest the hackers. Avid Life Media, the company that owns the Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward for information that could allow law enforcement to identify and arrest the hackers behind […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Who are the Ashley Madison users?

The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website have released another dump of 20 GB and experts are publishing their analysis on it. The recent hack of the adultery website Ashley Madison is attracting the attention of the media, after the disclosure of a second dump of data the security experts started their […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers released a second dump of Ashley Madison data

The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website, who call themselves “Impact Team,” have released another dump of 20 GB. A few hours ago, Joseph Cox, contributor at MotherBoard confirmed that the hackers behind the Ashley Madison data breach released a new dump of website database. In the last days, 10GB of data apparently […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers have leaked Ashley Madison dump online

The hacking crew who breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison has leaked online a dump of the company’s websites containing user data. In July, the popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked and a big amount of data was stolen by hackers who posted part of this information online as proof of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2015
Cheating site Ashley Madison hacked, 37 million users at risk

Nearly 37 million users of the cheating site Ashley Madison are at risk of having their data leaked online, including financial info and sexual fantasies. The popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked, and a big amounts of data was stolen by hackers who posted part of this information online as proof of […]