Ashley Madison hack data reportedly released, including credit cards and employer data

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by Sindy Cator on August 18, 2015 at 11:27 pm

Attention, 37 million users of the notorious affair website Ashley Madison: time to start sweating. According to a report from Ars Technica, the personal data pilfered during the hack is now available online, released as a BitTorrent file earlier today. According to the report, a 10GB file chock full of personal data — emails, member profiles, transaction data and the like — is now available though neatly searchable documents. Those who executed the attack, a group of hackers named The Impact Team, released the data after Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison, failed to take down Ashley Madison and related sugar…