AGAIN?!? –
Emails threaten to publish intimate details unless members pay a hefty ransom.
In the past two weeks, researchers have detected “several hundred” emails that threaten to air those intimate details to the world unless the former subscribers’ pay a hefty fee. I know everything about you, ” one of the emails, dated January , says. “I even know that you ordered some … let’s call them ‘male assistance products’ online on / 32 / using your account at Bank of America N, a routing # account # [redacted] for $ for mailing to [redacted] CA [redacted]! ”The extortionist goes on to say:“ If you do not act very fast your full AMadison profile and proof of it will be shared with friends, family, and online over social media — and of course your internet orders. ”
(date of birth)
sign-up date
user name
security answer
dates that specific private messages were sent
Vade Security researchers detected the email campaign a few weeks ago according to Adrien Gendre, chief product officer at the company. In an email to Ars, he said researchers believe these extortion emails were part of a trial run and that a larger wave is likely to follow.
A week later, after Ashley Madison failed to comply, people identifying themselves as members of a group calling itself Impact Team (released details for two Ashley Madison members . The full outing — including, among other things, years worth of credit card details, members’ names, addresses, sexual proclivities, and direct messages — occurred a month later.
Despite the damage done to millions of users and years of unfavorable news coverage that resulted, Ashley Madison continues to operate and even thrive by some accounts. According to a report from auditors Ernst & Young , there were , new Ashley Madison accounts registered monthly that year. A report published a year later said new registrations for 2020 totaled 5.3 million and on average there were , 728 New Ashley Madison accounts registered each month. In this post , Ashley Madison claims to have 183 million members. The site’s tagline continues to be “Life is short. Have an affair. ”
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