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Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed several security issues in popular online dating platform OkCupid that could potentially let attackers remotely spy on users’ private information or perform malicious actions on behalf of the targeted accounts. According to a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers from Check Point found that the flaws in OkCupid’s Android and […]
In 2015, cheating site Ashley Madison suffered a data breach in which personal data of 37 million users was stolen and then sold on dark web marketplaces. The effect of it was so devastating that a retired police captain of the City of San Antonio police department committed suicide after his official email address was found in the leaked […]
Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users affected by the 2015 massive data breach. Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a massive data breach in 2015. The site was hacked in July 2015 […]
Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service for people cheating on their romantic partners, there seemed to be one saving grace. User passwords were cryptographically protected using bcrypt, an algorithm […]
The recent hack of fembot dating extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison, which resulted in data from millions of accounts being dumped online, has one more salutary yet familiar lesson to deliver: even very well encrypted stupid passwords are still stupid. While plenty of aspects of Ashley Madison’s business and operations have raised eyebrows, the firm did apparently use robust and respected encryption for its […]
Short Bytes: After the Ashley Madison hack, each day we are greeted with a brand-new revelation. But, here’s the most interesting truth of Ashley Madison. According to an analysis done by Gizmodo, it turns out that Ashley Madison wasn’t a place where men were busy cheating on their wives. There, about 20.2 million of men, […]
Police suspect two suicides are related to the release of information stolen from the relationship-cheating website. Amid reports that the Ashley Madison security breach may have led to suicides and extortion plots, Toronto police and the affair-arranging website are upping the ante to catch the hackers responsible for the embarrassing leak of users’ information. To […]
A former police captain of the City of San Antonio police department committed suicide after his official email address was found amid the leaked data of the cheating website Ashley Madison, San Antonio Express-News reported on Friday. He was one of the three officials of the police department whose official email addresses (ending at @sanantonio.gov) […]
Impact Team, the group of hackers who earlier stole a huge amount of personal data of about 37 million customers from the renowned cheating website Ashley Madison, now appear to release all the information on the Internet. They have published near to 10 gigabytes of data, which includes all the personal details of the website […]
Online cheating website AshleyMadison.com has been hacked, and as a result, large chunks of data has been stolen. The compromised data has been posted online by some group or individual that claims to hack the user database and financial records of the company. According to the reports, the Ashley Madison hack has risked the personal […]