{"id":21758,"date":"2015-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/government-links-exposed-in-ashley-madison-hack\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"government-links-exposed-in-ashley-madison-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/government-links-exposed-in-ashley-madison-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt links exposed in Ashley Madison hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karlis Salna and Andrew Leeson,&nbsp;SYDNEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Hundreds of government email accounts, some from the Department of Defence, and others from various state police forces have been listed in a hack of data claimed to be from the Ashley Madison dating service.<\/h3>\n<p>A cache of the files, seen by AAP, reveals at least 800 email addresses believed to be linked to users of the website, which offers members the ability to arrange affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker group, Impact Team, made good on a threat to post the information online by releasing the data on Wednesday AEST to the dark web, which operates below the public internet and is only accessible through a special browser.<\/p>\n<p>The contact details of employees from the federal departments of health, education and environment, and from the NSW Attorney-General&#8217;s Department were also included.<\/p>\n<p>There were dozens of email addresses from police officers from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia listed in the cache, as well as from the ABC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to the hack discussed on FIVEAA Breakfast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/220028269&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Department of Defence have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The sexual fantasies and personal information of millions of users of the cheating website, including Australian members, were released in a massive cache of data of almost 10 gigabytes.<\/p>\n<p>There are postal addresses from around Australia, including Riley Street in Sydney&#8217;s Surry Hills, and the details of a wedding photographer in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Among the addresses were phone numbers and names.<\/p>\n<p>However, one Melbourne man, whose details were listed in the dump, told AAP his information had been stolen months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not good, we had stuff stolen ages ago,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cancel our cards every three weeks &#8211; that is the advice from the banks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The file yields intimate information, with one message reading: &#8220;I&#8217;m open-minded and adventurous (both in and out of the bedroom), and love passionate sex &#8211; giving as much as receiving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message included the user&#8217;s name, location in Sydney and email address.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Madison, which describes itself as &#8220;the most famous name in infidelity&#8221;, was targeted by Impact Team in July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,&#8221; the hacker group posted on a website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Avid Life Media, a Canadian-based company, owns both websites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have explained the fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM and their members,&#8221; the hacker group continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now everyone gets to see their data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Avid Life Media responded to the data dump by saying it had referred the matter to law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Ashley Madison claimed to have more than 17 million users in 26 countries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed this includes almost one million Australians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/coach-james-hird-was-an-unmitigated-disaster\">HIRD A &#8216;DISASTER&#8217; AS COACH, SAYS CARO WILSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/why-you-should-always-leave-your-dash-cam-on\">WHY YOU SHOULD GET A DASH CAM FOR YOUR CAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karlis Salna and Andrew Leeson,&nbsp;SYDNEY Hundreds of government email accounts, some from the Department of Defence, and others from various state police forces have been listed in a hack of data claimed to be from the Ashley Madison dating service. 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