{"id":55101,"date":"2023-10-20T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/ashley-madison-breach-reveals-the-rise-of-the-moralist-hacker-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:30:00","slug":"ashley-madison-breach-reveals-the-rise-of-the-moralist-hacker-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/ashley-madison-breach-reveals-the-rise-of-the-moralist-hacker-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media (ALM), parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided for millions of their customer\u2019s details.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n All sorts of information that isn\u2019t expressly financial is valuable \u2013 HR records including personal information and health information, such as those stolen from the US government<\/a>, can be used to fraudulently gain access to other data, of for blackmail for financial gain or to further a political or moral agenda.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Ashley Madison hackers, calling themselves Impact Team, seem to have a moral agenda, adding another dimension to the factors that motivate cybercriminals, and therefore something else for overburdened security professionals to consider.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n There is a spectrum of sensitive information, from an email address to private secrets. The theft of the Ashley Madison databases, essentially a list of 37m possible adulterers\u2019 identifying details, must rank as one of the most \u201csensitive\u201d troves of data ever acquired. While there will be credit card details too, it\u2019s the potential for public (and private) embarrassment that many will be fearing.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\nIt doesn\u2019t get more sensitive than this<\/h2>\n