Raja Bhatia, the former founding CTO of Ashley Madison who has been consulting the company since the breach happened a month ago, said that the hackers’ data dump included “ fake data,” Krebs reported. We are actively monitoring and investigating this situation to determine the validity of any information posted online and will continue to devote significant resources to this effort. We have now learned that the individual or individuals responsible for this attack claim to have released more of the stolen data. However, a statement from Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life Media (ALM) on Tuesday, 18 August, was carefully worded to avoid confirming the validity of the data. The message was signed with the same PGP key used previously by Impact Team, according to Motherboard.īiderman hasn’t denied the hack of Ashley Madison occurred – in fact, he told security journalist Brian Krebs last month that “we’re not denying this happened.” The data batch was accompanied by a personal message for Biderman. One of the folders is called .7z, implying that it contains contents from the email account of Noel Biderman, the CEO and founder of Ashley Madison, Motherboard reported. The new trove of files seems to include internal corporate data from Ashley Madison. Motherboard reported on Thursday (20 August) that Impact Team posted the second batch of data on the same Dark Web site as before. The hackers calling themselves Impact Team have released another nearly 20 gigs of data, roughly double the size of the earlier data dump. The hackers behind the massive breach of user data from Ashley Madison are still at it, posting vast quantities of private data from the cheaters’ dating site for the second time this week.