re: Hacker team that hacked Ashley Madison says they were blackmailing own users

It's funny cuz td is the 'raciest' site I've signed up for and I regret that decision to this day.

In a way this is the opposite of the fappening.. I bet most of those on AM also have the downloaded celeb noods close at hand and weren't expecting to have their pants pulled down.

Course I actually like my wife and have so far in my life resisted the compulsion to take pics of my dick to send to strangers...

You just wrote an episode of law n order.

I wrote a draft of a movie years ago that I want to get made some day about "hacker hunters"

it was going to be over-the-top violent comedy where people reversed traced these assholes and went beating them up/killing them off.

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Today, I can confidently claim that the single person is a woman, and has recently worked within Avid Life Media. I have provided IBTimes UK background information and pertinent elements of the woman's data dump to prove both my access to the data and also to confirm elements of my research, under the strict conditions that it is to be referenced and then destroyed. The data I provided included such delicate material as the decoded password hash tables of every Avid Life and Ashley Madison employee, which I have also now destroyed.

How did I come to this conclusion? Very simply. I have spent my entire career in the analysis of cybersecurity breaches, and can recognise an inside job 100% of the time if given sufficient data - and 40GB is more than sufficient. I have also practiced social engineering since the word was first invented and I can very quickly identify gender if given enough emotionally charged words from an individual. The perpetrator's two manifestos provided that. In short, here is how I went about it.

How did I discover that it was an inside job? From the data that was released, it was clear that the perpetrator had intimate knowledge of the technology stack of the company (all the programs being used). For example, the data contains actual MySQL database dumps. This is not just someone copying a table and making into a .csv file. Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

Strange files

More important, large companies are heavily departmentalised, in spite of having centralised databases. When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to. For example: the personnel work scheduling for equipment maintenance will normally exist only on the workstation of the maintenance manager.

Likewise, the data for options for stock shares in a company, an extremely private set of data, will exist only in a private file on the workstation of the VP of Finance, or the CEO, or possibly both. It would require an equal amount of work to gain access to the personnel schedule for maintenance as it would to acquire a list of potential corporate owners. Hackers don't have all the time in the world, so they pick and choose wisely. Among the data that the perpetrator released is the following:

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This is a reach at best. Hackers can and have done all this before. There is no solid proof this was an inside job. The writer of this article is making huge assumptions here based on "what he thinks" and reporting it as fact.

Dumb and irresponsible.

Interesting life of John MCafee

I see what you mean now...

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Interesting life of John MCafee

I see what you mean now...

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that article left out the fact he buried himself in the sand to hide from the authorities searching for him in connection with the death of his neighbor and possible implications to someone poisoning his dogs.

LucasP - "There's a guy at wafb spending millions of dollars to get people's names on the Ashley Madison list. We're not sure why but he's definitely trying to ruin marriages of non cheating, innocent guys."

I'm so sure that wafb has millions to spend on this stupid shite.

John McAfee knows his shite. He just comes off a bit crazy sometimes

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Most of the names that came out were faked. There's a guy at wafb spending millions of dollars to get people's names on the Ashley Madison list. We're not sure why but he's definitely trying to ruin marriages of non cheating, innocent guys.

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You're rapidly rising to the top of my fave posters list. Look out Rag and Terd.

That was good shite.

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My ol' pappy used to say: There is no more deeply moving religious experience than cheating on a cheater.

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I never said that! You've been misquoting me your whole life!!