do you think someone impulsive enough to use such a site is going to have the patience to inoculate themselves in this way?
do you think someone impulsive enough to use such a site is going to have the patience to inoculate themselves in this way?
Adrian_Thompson wrote: Seems odd. The hackers should have just completely shut down the site and deleted all the data if they want to hit the site hard.
Nah, that would've been a minor inconvenience compared to this. AM would restore from backups and be running again in a few hours.
The hackers want AM out of business and are holding their users' records hostage to convince AM to comply.
Update: The demands were not met.
GameboyRMH wrote: Update: The demands were not met.
This is gonna be interesting.
I can't wait for the .gov and .edu email addresses to start flowing out of this. Just the email list alone is gold for scammers.
That's why I went by the name Carlos Danger.
Did you see the specs on Toronto? Something like one in 5 people there were on that web site. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
If the subscriber list ever goes public, I wonder how many people are going to catch hell because someone with the same name was using the site? With 37 million people I guessing there are people in multiple cities named Dan Smith, Robert Davis, John Brown, etc.
G_Body_Man wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: Update: The demands were not met.This is gonna be interesting.
What does it say, the link appears dead.
In reply to Type Q:
Its on the dark web.....personally, I'd like to hang the hackers and cheaters from the tallest trees in the land.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:G_Body_Man wrote:What does it say, the link appears dead.GameboyRMH wrote: Update: The demands were not met.This is gonna be interesting.
Link still works for me. It's not a darknet link (although it was originally released on a darknet site). It's a torrent of all the data the hackers took along with their remarks on releasing it. They also reveal that the vast majority of the site's female users were fake accounts, the place was a sausagefest.
The beauty of this is that they can just release any name. It doesn't even have to have ever been associated with the site. It would still cause an epic E36 M3 storm. By the time someone successfully defends their innocence they are already ruined. They didn't need to hack anything. Just dump out the phone book.
They also reveal that the vast majority of the site's female users were fake accounts, the place was a sausagefest.
Surprising no one.
I just realized that the elections are coming up. I can only imagine the data scrubbing that will be going on to match this data with anyone/anything associated with a political party.
There will be lulz in the news over the next few days, for sure.
And so it begins: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/18/the-georgia-government-domains-found-in-the-ashley-madison-data-dump/
If I had a scammy "free credit report dot com" business or a shady "pay us to fix your internet image" website, this list of email addresses would be pretty gold. Say you can get $50 for every 1,000 emails: that's almost $2million.
rcutclif wrote: If I had a scammy "free credit report dot com" business or a shady "pay us to fix your internet image" website, this list of email addresses would be pretty gold. Say you can get $50 for every 1,000 emails: that's almost $2million.
It could've been gold if it weren't already publicly released. Not many people will pay money to a shady site for the promise of not having their info released, but you could charge those few big money, I'm sure they wouldn't blink at a low-4-digit amount. You could even specially target certain customers: say you scan the list of names against a list of Fortune 500 execs, you could set the price for those users into the 7-digit range (although most of those guys already have wives who are happy to look the other way).
You can't clean up a person's Internet image, you can only lay some pretty brochures on top of it and hope nobody looks under them.
Here's how to make money on the leak, set up a convenient online search tool for it:
http://www.trustify.info/check
GameboyRMH wrote:rcutclif wrote: If I had a scammy "free credit report dot com" business or a shady "pay us to fix your internet image" website, this list of email addresses would be pretty gold. Say you can get $50 for every 1,000 emails: that's almost $2million.It could've been gold if it weren't already publicly released. Not many people will pay money to a shady site for the promise of not having their info released, but you could charge those few big money, I'm sure they wouldn't blink at a low-4-digit amount. You could even specially target certain customers: say you scan the list of names against a list of Fortune 500 execs, you could set the price for those users into the 7-digit range (although most of those guys already have wives who are happy to look the other way). You can't clean up a person's Internet image, you can only lay some pretty brochures on top of it and hope nobody looks under them.
That's why you only charge $50. You are not promising that their info won't be leaked, just that you are providing service to 'protect' them now that it is leaked. Basically you are charging them $50 for nothing (just like the free credit report or clean up your internet image businesses already do).
It's not gold because of the source, its gold because of the content. Any real emails on that list are pre-selected individuals of low intelligence and extra money, and I'd say you'd get a pretty good hit rate on people paying for your scam out of that group.
Oh wow, things may get REALLY interesting:
"This includes full name, email, and password hash as you'd expect. It also includes dating information, like height, weight, and so forth. 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."
It really won't be difficult to tie those GPS coordinates to locations of interest. Again, this will be absolute gold for the upcoming election season.
And the first big name to be revealed is....(drum roll)....JOSH DUGGAR!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204050/REPORT-Josh-Duggar-paid-1-000-multiple-Ashley-Madison-accounts-search-oral-sex-one-night-stands-sex-toy-experimentation-more.html
Josh wasn't exactly in good standing right now anyway, but this sure didn't help things.
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