Hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, have posted 9.7 gigabytes of stolen customer details from AshleyMadison.com online for all to see. The sensitive customer information was uploaded on Tuesday, and was initially only available via the anonymising Tor Web Browser.
Enterprising coders have since created websites that make it possible
to enter specific email addresses to see if they match the stolen
customer records.
According to several reports, the files seem to include the login and
account details for almost 33 million people, who at some point signed
up for the site. The released files date all the way back to 2008. While
they do not contain any actual credit card numbers, they do apparently
include street addresses, names, and transactions While users of
AshleyMadison.com may have falsified their information when signing up, (such as giving a false name),
unless they used a pre-paid credit card, then their information will be
contained somewhere within the near 10 gigabytes of stolen details. AshleyMadison.com is a dating website aimed fully at men and women
who are already married, and are actively looking to have affairs. The
company has courted controversy since its founding by Noel Biderman
back in 2001, but has proved to extremely successful as a workable
business model. The company whose motto goes “Life is short, have an
affair,” is no stranger to controversy, priding itself on its
pro-infidelity approach to life. However Ashley Madison also prided
itself on being ‘discrete,’ which may now no longer be a selling point
for future users of the site. According to Impact Team’s initial statement posted online, part of their motivation was to target a company that lies, and “profits on the pain of others.” Another motivating factor was apparently the fact that Ashley Madison’s full profile deletion option, that generated $1.7 million alone in 2014 for the company,
is not quite as comprehensive as users might have hoped for: Users real
names and addresses are still allegedly kept on file, and this
information comprised part of Impact Team’s statement. Impact Team said they would release all the customer records they had obtained unless AshleyMadison.com was taken “offline permanently in all forms.”
Ashley Madison did not comply with this request. Avid Life Media, the
company owning Ashley Madison, said in a statement: “This event is not
an act of ‘hacktivism’, it is an act of criminality…” The original theft of the Data took place in July, and evidence allegedly points to a former employee of Ashley Madison with inside knowledge of the company.
EXCLUSIVE: Eva said she bedded ace to upset me, claims ex-lover
Passionate ... Chelsea doc Eva Carneiro
CHELSEA doctor Eva Carneiro’s ex says they split after she taunted him by claiming she had sex with a player. Eva,
demoted after a row with Jose Mourinho, had a passionate relationship
with Rupert Patterson-Ward for 15 months. He said last night: “This
woman ruined my life. “Eva would blurt out she had slept
with one of the players during heated rows. She said it just to make me
feel bad. I don’t believe it was true.’’
Besotted ... Eva's ex Rupert Patterson-Ward
Rupert claims one Chelsea player called her to his hotel room and answered the door naked. He added: “She prides herself on being popular among the players. Eva loved the attention.” Chelsea fan Rupert, 33, spoke after Eva was dropped from the bench after a row with manager Jose Mourinho.
Mourinho labelled his medical team “naïve” after they rushed on to the
pitch to treat Eden Hazard in the closing stages of their home game with
Swansea last weekend. The Belgian star had to walk off the pitch after Eva and physio Jon Fearn attended to him. It left Chelsea, already a man down, with just nine players.
Bust-up ... Jose Mourinho blasts Eva during match
Advertising salesman Rupert began dating Eva in January 2012 and last
night told how she is passionate, ruthless and gets whatever she wants. And he revealed how the Gibraltar-born medic, now 41, once led him to the bedroom and declared: “Let me treat you.” He said: “Eva is a very sexual woman and not many people know the real her. “She’s ruthless and gets whatever and whoever she wants. “I was besotted with her and we were planning a family, but she chewed me up and spat me out.
A touch of glass ... Eva downs wine on holiday in 2013
“She rubbished me because I earned less than £30,000 a year — what
some footballers collect in a day. I tried so hard but nothing was good
enough for her.” He said: “Eva loved sex. It was so important to her. We would have sex every single day. “She is a fiery and passionate woman who knows what she wants. I was an incredibly lucky man. “We were blissfully happy. We were an item and wanted the world to know — two people very much in love.” Rupert
was so keen to impress her he embarked on a rigorous gym regime in a
bid to look more like the hunky football stars she worked with on a
daily basis. But one of his workouts left him in agony when he pulled a shoulder muscle.
With Rupert ... couple before she dumped him
He said: “I was doubled up and really hurting. When Eva came back she saw I was in pain. “She took me to her bedroom, and with a twinkle in her eye said, ‘I need to treat you’. “She tore off my clothes, glanced at my shoulder, jumped on me and we had passionate sex.” But
months later, as their relationship floundered, he claims she taunted
him by bragging that she’d had sex with a player during their time
together. Rupert said: “Eva would blurt out she had slept with one of the players during heated rows. “She said it just to make me feel bad. I don’t believe it was true.’’
The fact the couple were dating was the subject of Chelsea fans’ blogs.
One posted a photo of Eva and Rupert with the message: “A million
dreams have just been shattered... Eva and her boyfriend.”
Cleopatra ... her club party outfit
Eva joined Chelsea in 2009 and former manager Andre Villas-Boas
brought her into the first-team fold in 2011. She is regarded as a
top-class professional and one of the best sports medics in the game. Rupert
first met her at Frankie’s sports bar in the club’s Stamford Bridge
complex. He said: “I was a bit tipsy and loose-tongued and went over and
began chatting. “She was with her parents but I didn’t care. I
chatted for as long as I could without freaking her out, and made sure
she had my name, phone number, email, you name it. “That day was like a Carlsberg TV ad.” Rupert
believes Eva mistakenly thought he worked at Chelsea FC. But he was
welcomed into the inner sanctum of the club as her boyfriend and was on
friendly terms with the team’s superstars.
Pet pooch ... the doctor with her dog
He said: “Eva got me tickets to every home game. I’d go to lots of away matches too. “Everyone at the club knew who I was. I was invited to the homes of Florent Malouda and Petr Cech. “I
travelled to Munich for the Champions League final with John Terry’s
wife Toni, Frank Lampard’s partner Christine Bleakley and all of the
team’s friends and family. “John knew who I was and I’d shake hands with Didier Drogba and others. It was amazing.” During a lavish trip to Marbella, Eva asked Rupert if he would consider moving to Spain so they could live close to her family. He said: “I answered ‘yes’ in a flash. We were so in love. “We discussed having children. We had sex a million times. “She could have fallen pregnant any day.”
Cup cake ... she enjoys a tasty treat
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But Rupert told how Eva’s high-pressure job means she can change emotions in an instant. They began having bust-ups in September 2012. Rupert sub-let his flat and moved into Eva’s property in Earlsfield, South London, but their rows became more frequent.
He was so worried he was losing her that he once hired a £50,000 Jeep
4x4 to pick her up from Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham, Surrey. But
the cracks in the relationship began to deepen. Rupert said he “saw the real Eva” when she briefly dumped him after her 39th birthday because he “hadn’t made enough effort”. New Year’s Eve at a pub was also a disaster when Eva and Rupert were joined by her parents. He said: “I saw Eva give out her number to another guy. I got drunk and went home alone. “Later
in Eva’s bedroom, she slapped me hard with both hands around my face.
She then kicked me out of the house in front of her parents. I had
nowhere to go and it was humiliating. We patched things up a day or two
later.” Rupert said whenever he rowed with Eva she would pull out her claim that she had slept with one of the Chelsea squad.
On hols ... pair together in June, 2013
He said: “She told how one
footballer would constantly hit on her, parading around naked in front
of her at every opportunity in the dressing room and making sure she got
a real eyeful. “After one match he called her to his hotel room and answered the door completely starkers. “Eva rubbed my nose in it when we rowed. It was cruel. “She is a fiery Latino, sex-mad, and prides herself on being popular among the players. Eva loved the attention.” He said the professional demands placed on her by the team put a huge strain on the relationship. “He
recalled: “We would be sitting at home watching TV and she would have
calls from players at 9pm or 10pm. They would have had a sore leg or had
pulled a hamstring. “She always went and returned in the early hours. I had to get my head around the fact she would be giving players rub downs.” The
end for Rupert came after an ill-fated trip to Marbella at the end of
the 2013 season. He said: “She never spoke to me again.” Rupert,
who has since found new love, said of Eva: “She loves hanging around
rich guys with huge egos. I think she liked me because I was different,
but ultimately I wasn’t enough for her.”
