Ashley Madison Hackers Start Releasing Names

"We are not opportunistic skids with DDoS or SQLi scanners or defacements. We are dedicated, focused, skilled, and we're never going away. If you profit off the pain of others, whatever it takes, we will completely own you."

So reads a statement from The Impact Team published on a data dumping site called PasteBin, where the hackers left a message for the Ashley Madison site runners about a month ago when the hack was made public.  AshleyMadison.com is a website known as the 'cheater's dating site', where married men and women can go to have extramarital affairs with complete secrecy.

Well...maybe 'complete' was the wrong word to use.

It's old news that the hackers threatened to post the emails of the cheaters using the site-- but how many people thought they would actually follow through?

Considering the fact that they've just posted an extensive list-- 32 million names, to be exact-- to the public, I'd say they did more than what was promised.

If you have a Tor browser, you can easily find and open the information, which totaled at 9.7 GB of data.  If you don't have a Tor browser and are really persistent, the names are housed on what is called 'the dark web', or a part of the internet that you can't reach with a simple Google search.

The leaked information includes the names of the users, street address, email address, the amount of money the user paid to the site, and other personal information, including each user's 'erotic fantasies'.  The Impact Team also claims that 90-95% of the users are male and are operating the site amongst several fake female profiles made by the site itself. "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," reads the official statement from Impact, released on Tuesday.

That statement ended with The Impact Team reaching out to the actual users.  "Find yourself in here?  It was ALM [Avid Life Media] that failed you and lied to you.  Prosecute them and claim damages.  Then move on with your life.  Learn your lesson and make amends.  Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it."

What do you think of the released information?  Would you want to know if your spouse or loved one was on the website?