Hackers who broke into the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website have broken their silence warning that they have a mountain of unreleased data.
Having just released a further cache of material, The Impact Team ridiculed the security Ashley Madison used to protect its clients.
The hackers said security
was bad. “Nobody was watching,” they told the Motherboard website as they explained that they had worked hard to make the attack undetectable.
Personal details of at least 37 million clients have been released and in Britain a woman has started divorce proceedings after finding that her husband’s details were among the leaked accounts.
It is estimated that the company has 1.2 million British clients.
Legal experts have predicted that Avid Life Media, Ashley Madison’s parent company, is likely to face an avalanche of claims from clients whose privacy has been breached.
The hackers, who have been collecting material for several years, said they have far more material – in all about 300 gigabytes of data including staff emails and documents along with tens of thousands of photographs of website users and chat sessions.
However the team said there were some sexually explicit pictures that they would not release.
The hackers said they were ready to target other companies who make money “profiting of the pain of others” along with “corrupt politicians.
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