The same hackers who threated to expose the identities of more than 37 million cheaters last month appeared to have followed through with their promise.
According to the New York Times, the hackers dumped 9.7 gigabytes worth of stolen user account and payment information online this week. The data includes email addresses, transition details and passwords for members of Ashley Madison.
The website is used for individuals looking to have an affair. Established Men, another site that markets to women looking to date wealthy men, is also affected.
Both sites are owned by Avid Life Media who assured users last month that they were able to "secure" its sites and "close the unauthorized access points."
"This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality," the company said in a statement to the New York Times. "It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any free-thinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities. The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society."
They added, "We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world. We are continuing to fully cooperate with law enforcement to seek to hold the guilty parties accountable to the strictest measures of the law."
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