The Ashley Madison Cheater Database Is Out There

The hackers who broke into the personals website catering to married people looking to hookup were not bluffing.

One month ago, some fellows calling themselves "The Impact Team" hacked into AshleyMadison.com ("the most famous name in infidelity", according their own website), collected all the personal information for the 30+ million Ashley Madison accounts, and said if Ashley Madison did not shut their website down the cheating spouses would be outed.

Their beef with Ashley Madison stems from their business practices (that they are committing fraud by not being as private as they claim to be) and also added some zingers about cheating spouses on their manifesto.

They even revealed two of the people as an appetizer.

Yesterday, The Impact Team saw that Ashley Madison's website is still operational, as you can see here:

.....and they gave us the full meal. They did what is called a "data dump" of 9.7 GB and released the names and personal info for all of them. All. Of. Them.

It is the Divorce Lawyer Gold Rush.

It cannot be accessed by conventional web browsers or searches -- you can't just Google it -- you need a special browser that is used for underground websites, things that (and this may sound scary) are a little too provocative for us regular Internet sickos.

Someone on Twitter seemed to sum things up perfectly: