The hackers who threatened to release the subscribers of cheating website, Ashley Madison, if they didn’t shut it down have followed through with their warning.
As we previously reported, the hackers, known as The Impact Team, made this threat last month.
Reuters reports the leak was followed through on Tuesday night, making a cache of thousands of names and addresses of users public. However, the information was only accessible through a specialized browser.
The data includes email addresses, streets addresses and the amount paid, but not the users’ credit card information.
Wired reports the list of names was 9.7 gigabytes in size, and consisted of about 32 million users dating back to 2007.
Although the data is hard to retrieve, some of it was posted on easier accessible parts of the internet.
“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” Impact Team wrote in a statement. “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data…. Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 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.”