Ashley Madison Breach | Replay
11/28/24 • 55 min
With Netflix shining attention on the victims of the 2015 Ashley Madison breach, we're running a replay of our own coverage from 2021 that gets into the dark underbelly that Netflix skipped: lies Ashley Madison told about their services (and their CEO's fidelity), and blackmail attempts from enterprising hacker types. We also put forth evidence that the hacker, who was never caught, is most likely Canadian and a woman.
Resources
- Impact Team Pastebin notice, July 20, 2015: https://pastebin.com/ZGXmk8R9
- Krebs on Security report on breach: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/
- Suicides attributed to Ashley Madison breach:
- https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/08/technology/ashley-madison-suicide/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506
- https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/11/10/woman-hurt-typing-fake-profiles-for-dating-site-20m-suit-alleges/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/ashleymadison-500k-bounty-for-hackers/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/was-the-ashley-madison-database-leaked/
- https://grahamcluley.com/ashley-madisons-leaked-database-available-download-read-this/
- https://grahamcluley.com/ashley-madison-fake/
- https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/the-strange-rise-and-sudden-fall-of-noel-biderman-the-former-ceo-of-ashley-madison/
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With Netflix shining attention on the victims of the 2015 Ashley Madison breach, we're running a replay of our own coverage from 2021 that gets into the dark underbelly that Netflix skipped: lies Ashley Madison told about their services (and their CEO's fidelity), and blackmail attempts from enterprising hacker types. We also put forth evidence that the hacker, who was never caught, is most likely Canadian and a woman.
Resources
- Impact Team Pastebin notice, July 20, 2015: https://pastebin.com/ZGXmk8R9
- Krebs on Security report on breach: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/
- Suicides attributed to Ashley Madison breach:
- https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/08/technology/ashley-madison-suicide/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506
- https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/11/10/woman-hurt-typing-fake-profiles-for-dating-site-20m-suit-alleges/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/ashleymadison-500k-bounty-for-hackers/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/was-the-ashley-madison-database-leaked/
- https://grahamcluley.com/ashley-madisons-leaked-database-available-download-read-this/
- https://grahamcluley.com/ashley-madison-fake/
- https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/the-strange-rise-and-sudden-fall-of-noel-biderman-the-former-ceo-of-ashley-madison/
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How Hacks Happen - Ashley Madison Breach | Replay
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Welcome to How Hacks Happen. I'm Michele Bousquet, cybersecurity researcher and author. In this episode, we're going to revisit the Ashley Madison breach from 2015, which we covered in an episode in 2021.
In case you don't know, Ashley Madison is a website for married people who want to find someone to cheat with, and there was a breach in 2015 that compromised the privacy of over 30 million people.
Now Netflix has a new three-part series about this breach, but while the Netflix series f
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