Posted on Aug 20, 2015
SSgt Alex Robinson
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CW5 Regimental Chief Warrant Officer
So 15,000 accounts are linked to .mil or .gov email addresses. I wonder if anyone will data mine these addresses and look into any violations of UCMJ. It would be hard to prove, for sure.

What would you do if you knew one of your subordinates or leaders had one of these accounts?

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Hackers claimed Tuesday to have leaked personal data of millions of people that was stolen in a cyberattack on the parent company of Ashley Madison, an online dating site aimed at people who wish to have extramarital affairs.

WIRED reported that a group called the Impact Team, who claimed responsibility for last month's hack, posted 9.7 gigabytes of stolen user data on the so-called "dark web," a reference to a part of the Internet that can only be accessed through a specialized browser.

According to WIRED, the leaked data includes customer names, login details, street and e-mail addresses, and details of transactions that date as far back as 2007. However, WIRED reported that the data does not appear to include full credit card numbers. In all, approximately 32 million accounts at Ashley Madison and Established Men, a site aimed at women looking to date wealthy men, are believed to be affected.

It is not clear how much of the data belongs to real customers or are from fake, so-called "burner" accounts. However, WIRED reported that approximately 15,000 leaked e-mail addresses use .gov and .mil domains, meaning that they are hosted by U.S. government and military servers.

Toronto-based Avid Life Media, Inc., the parent company of both websites, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that it was aware of the group's claim and was investigating.

"The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner," the company said, accusing the hackers of seeking to impose "a personal notion of virtue on all of society."

Security analysts who examined the leaked data said they believed the information dump to be genuine. Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter who writes a blog on computer security and broke news of the initial hack last month, reported that he had spoken to three sources who reported finding their last names and credit card information in the database.

The hack was made public July 20, the day after Krebs' initial report was posted online. The Impact Team demanded at the time that Avid Life Media shut down Ashley Madison and Established Men. The group claimed to have targeted the company over its alleged fraudulent business practices, saying that Ashley Madison and Established Men's "full delete" tool does not remove users’ personal information for a one-time $19 fee, as promised by the sites.

"Shutting down AM and EM will cost you, but non-compliance will cost you more," a statement warned. "We will release all customer records, profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies, nude pictures, and conversations and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails."

WIRED reported that the Impact Team introduced the new data dump with a statement titled "Time's Up!"

"Avid Life Media has failed to shut down Ashley Madison and Established Men," the statement read. "We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.

The statement continued: "Find someone you know in here? Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit [sic]; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.

"Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends," the statement concludes. "Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it."

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/08/19/hackers-say-theyve-posted-data-adultery-website-ashley-madison-users-online/?intcmp=hpbt3
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Adultery is against the UCMJ....personally I think anyone guilty of it should be dragged out in public and branded with the scarlet letter....but I digress....but the burden of proof is pretty steep....basically you need to get caught in the act......be interesting to see how this plays out......bet a bunch of folks are scrubbing their computer systems.....they tell us in every computer briefing don't do anything on line that you would not do in real life....guess the warning was valid. 
MSgt Danny Hope
MSgt Danny Hope
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Yes, and civilians have violated their company and government code of ethics regarding the use of government owned equipment.
PO1 Tony Holland
Advertising for an affair is not the same as having one. Was General Petraeus charged with adultery?
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SSgt Alex Robinson
SSgt Alex Robinson
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PO1 Tony Holland the discussion was merged with another thread.
PO1 Tony Holland
PO1 Tony Holland
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Thanks - I missed the notation inside the red border on first reading this.
SCPO David Lockwood
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They are just now finding this out? It's like in Thailand when they put some clubs off limits because they had suspicions that there was prostitution going on in those clubs! Wakeup! And no I have not heard of this.

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