"" Thousands of clients using the affair-
oriented Ashley Madison website listed
email addresses registered to the White
House, top federal agencies and military
branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.
The detailed data, released Tuesday, will
likely put Washington, D.C., on edge. The
nation’s capital reportedly has the highest
rate of membership for the site of any city.
Indeed, more than 15,000 of the email
addresses used to register accounts were
hosted on government and military servers.
Buried in the list are emails that could be
tied to multiple administration agencies,
including the State Department and
Department of Homeland Security, as well
as several tied to both the House and
Senate.
For a month, hackers using the name
“Impact Team” have been holding hostage
the dating profiles of those who registered
on the site. The group threatened to
publicly out the potential adulterers if the
site’s owner, Avid Life Media, didn’t take
down Ashley Madison, which uses the
tagline, “Life is short. Have an affair.”
Security researchers said on Wednesday
that they believe the data released
following the hack at Ashley Madison is
authentic.
“This dump appears to be legit,” said David
Kennedy, CEO of information security
company TrustedSec, which monitors cyber
attacks, in a blog post . “Very, very legit.”
Security journalist Brian Krebs reported
several of the site’s users told him their
real information is in the data dump.
The leaked database is staggering, according
to researchers, and larger than expected at
37 million records, or nearly 10 gigabytes
compressed.
“For folks that may not know, that is
massive,” Kennedy said. “Huge.”
“It's full account information,” said Robert
Graham, CEO of Errata Security, in a blog
post . That includes full names, emails,
phone numbers, addresses and passwords.
“It also includes dating information, like
height, weight, and so forth,” Graham
added. “It appears to contain addresses, as
well as GPS coordinates. I suspect that
many people created fake accounts, but
with an app that reported their real GPS
coordinates.”
Other tech news outlets, such as CSO, have
discovered British government officials,
United Nations employees and Vatican staff
among the millions of people in the leaked
database.
However, the site reportedly did not check
the validity of email addresses, and it’s
likely that many of the government email
accounts were faked. For instance, several
emails were registered at “whitehouse.gov,”
whereas White House officials use “eop.gov”
for email communications.
The hackers have indicated their mission is
to publicly shame the company, while also
teaching its users a lesson.
“Find yourself in here?” they said in a
statement posted with the data dump. "It
was [Avid Life Media] that failed you and
lied to you. Prosecute them and claim
damages. Then move on with your life.
Learn your lesson and make amends.
Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.""
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/251431-ashley-madison-leak-appears-real-includes-thousands-of-government-emails
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