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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

July 18, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abusewithus, agentjags, Ashley Madison hack, ashleymadison.com, constella intelligence, data breaches, domaintools, eric malek, Hulu, impact team, Jordan Evan Bloom, LeakedSource, Ne'er-Do-Well News, near-reality.com, noel biderman, ownagegaming1@gmail.com, pictrace, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Runescape, trevor sykes

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:57:04 +0000

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

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Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

July 7, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, ashley madison, Ashley Madison hack, avid life media, Disney, Hulu, jeremy bullock, noel biderman, wall to wall media, warner bros., william webster harrison

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:55:45 +0000

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

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A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

July 26, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, ashley madison breach, avid life media, Flashpoint, impact team, Intel 471, noel biderman, per thorsheim, robert graham, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:04:51 +0000

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny.