Research: Ashley Madison Bitcoin Blackmail is Cheap and Profitable
How much have Ashley Madison customers been blackmailed for since their personal data was leaked last month? One cybersecurity firm thinks it might have the answer. In a 1st September blog post from network security firm CloudMark, software engineer and research analyst Toshiro Nishimura suggested that as much as $6,400 may have been extracted from those seeking to buy the silence of the blackmailer. CoinDesk reported last month that customers Ashley Madison, a website that advertised itself as a platform for infidelity, were receiving blackmail threats by email that contained personal....
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Spouses of Ashley Madison users, whose information was leaked receive communication from blackmailer after a failed blackmail attempt. Unlike the tagline “Life is Short. Have an Affair”, the Ashley Madison affair has been a messy one. The online dating service and social network for committed adults were targeted by hackers last year. The hackers stole user information and threatened to publish unless the company Avid Life Media shut down its platforms, Ashley Madison and Established Men. Avid Life Media ignored the demands, leading to the hackers publishing the information and personal....
Bitcoin has been the most favored currency for blackmailers and hackers. It has been proven yet again after an American received a blackmail email demanding ransom in bitcoin. The email was sent to an undisclosed American by somebody calling themselves as "Team GreyFlay" threatening to expose the person as a user of recently hacked extramarital affair platform Ashley Madison. The blackmailers have demanded exactly 2.00000054 BTCs, to be payable within a week from the American victim. Otherwise, Team GreyFlay has threatened to find his information among Ashley Madison user data and share it....
An American has received a blackmail email demanding payment in bitcoin after user data from the extramarital affair platform Ashley Madison was leaked. The email, provided to CoinDesk and dated 20th August, was sent by an entity calling itself "Team GrayFlay" and contained the individual's name and personal address. The user was instructed to send a payment in bitcoin or face exposure. Publicly available search tools confirm that the customer's email address was used to register an account at Ashley Madison. Earlier this week, a hacker group operating under the name Impact Team released a....
Since Ashley Madison, the adult dating site for those in committed relationships continues to make it to the news for all the wrong reasons. The website was hacked in July and compromised personal and intimate information belonging to millions of users. Ashley Madison was hacked by a group calling itself Impact Team. Impact Team has allegedly demanded Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media to take down Ashley Madison and its sister site Established Men unless the company wants the stolen data to go public. Avid Life Media did not give in to these demands, resulting in Impact Team....
Ashley Madison earned the company slogan, “Life is short, have an affair,” with a recent 37 million user data breach, making ‘short life’ of the company. But could all of this been prevented? Edward Mansfield, co-founder of Titcoin, which coins itself, “The official digital currency of the porn and adult entertainment industry,” attended the AVN....