Adultery site hacked 37 million user details exposed

Synopsis

In July 2015, a cyber attacker group called Impact Team stole the controversial dating site's user database by identifying weaknesses in password encryption and used these to crack the bcrypt-hashed passwords to gain access.

The attackers tried to...

Companies

  • Ashley Madison Agency
  • Avid Life Media
  • Ruby Corp.

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