TheAshley Madison hack, which exposed email and other personal information of thousands of the adultery service's users, is leading to a range of online fraud. Consumers should be on guard against a number of scams, said Bryce Evans, acting staff superintendent of the Toronto Police Service, i...
Scammers have found a new way to wring money out of unsuspecting victims of the 2015 breach of the Ashley Madison affair-dating website, by using their stolen credentials in an amped-up version of the common "sextortion" scam. Researchers at email security company Vade Secure found the new ...
The Canadian online dating service AshleyMadison was created for people who are married and are looking for romantic and sexual relationships without publicity. The site’s members consider it possible to continue a vibrant sex life outside their marriage. Besides, the Ashley Madison service, as we...
“This Ashley Madison extortion scam is a good example that a data breach is never one and done,” Vade Secure concluded. “In addition to being sold on the dark web, leaked data is almost always used to launch additional email-based attacks, including phishing and scams such as this one....