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Renew Deal

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Sat Aug 22, 2015, 10:17 PM Aug 2015

Ashley Madison hackers will withhold the private part photos [View all]

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The Impact Team only agreed to answer questions via email. The following is a short Q&A with them, edited lightly for clarity.

MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard?
The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing to bypass.

When did you start hacking them? Years ago?
A long time ago. [Note: in a README file in the first data dump, the hackers wrote that they had been collecting information from the company "over the past few years."]

What other data from Avid Life Media do you have?
300GB of employee emails and docs from internal network. Tens of thousands of Ashley Madison user pictures. Some Ashley Madison user chats and messages. 1/3 of pictures are dick pictures and we won't dump. Not dumping most employee emails either. Maybe other executives.
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Will The Impact Team be hacking any other sites in the future? If so, what targets or sort of targets do you have in mind?
Not just sites. Any companies that make 100s of millions profiting off pain of others, secrets, and lies. Maybe corrupt politicians. If we do, it will be a long time, but it will be total.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ashley-madison-hackers-speak-out-nobody-was-watching

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