Mysterious team behind hack attack prepare to release up 40 million affair site customers' names, addresses, nude pics - and even their 'secret sexual fantasies'
Hackers have threatened to release names, addresses and pictures of of the 1.2 million British people who use the website Ashley Madison to cheat on their partners .
A shadowy group called The Impact Team claimed to have accessed the the intimate details of up to 37 million love rats, threatening to release their nude images and even details of their secret sexual fantasies.
Selling itself under the tagline "life is short, have an affair", Ashley Madison promises a carnal cornucopia to anyone who is bored with their partner.
In a statement obtained by computer security expert Brian Krebs
, The Impact Team warned: "Avid Life Media [the owner of Ashley Madison] has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.
"The other websites may stay online.”
Ashley Madison chief executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack and said his firm was "working diligently and feverishly" to get the revealing information taken down off the internet.
“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”
Source: Mirror
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