“Phase Two” of Ashley Madison leaks released
Hackers are calling their newest leak “Phase Two” – exposing more information from the website Ashley Madison.
The newest leak includes internal company emails and computer codes that power the site.
It comes days after information from more than 32 million users was leaked.
The data includes 15,000 email addresses connected to the federal government and data about reality TV star Josh Duggar.
This hack proves that the hackers don’t go just after credit cards.
“The writing’s been on the wall,” said Craig Smith, chief investigator at Bright Star Investigations in Colorado Springs. “The hackers threatened Ashley Madison and Ashley Madison refused to cave.”
He called these hacks and the ramifications unprecedented.
“There are no rules, we’re in new territory,” he said. “Never before in the history of the world has there been such a disclosure of infidelity.”
He says the hack was morally motivated, with millions of names of registered married people, all of them looking to cheat.
“Email accounts, credit card accounts, account information, what they do. It’s pretty spot on. It’s pretty spot on as far as targeting goes,” he said.
Ashley Madison has thousands of users in Colorado and while the copy of the database KRDO NewsChannel 13 got access to Thursday didn’t reveal their locations, anyone who posts anything online, is vulnerable anywhere.
“Privacy is not what people think it is… and so in that sense, technology and the gravity of these expectations of privacy is not there,” said family law attorney Michael Lucas. “The business as a whole may see a boost it may not otherwise have.”
But in investigations, Smith said it’s all public now.
“In the future if I have a client call me, I might be inclined to check this as well,” Smith said.
