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Nearly five years after the high-profile Ashley Madison data breach, hundreds of impacted website users are being targeted by a new extortion attack this past week. Victims are receiving emails threatening to expose their Ashley Madison accounts - along with other embarrassing data - to family and friends on social media and via email, unless they pay a Bitcoin ransom.

For individuals whose personal details were exposed, the impact of a data breach may last forever. Witness the 2015 data breach of extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, perpetrated by a group calling itself the Impact Team, which leaked 30 GB of data about subscribers.

Five-year old data from the site's breach is at the center of a new cryptocurrency ransom campaign, and it may be the beginning of a new trend. According to email security vendor Vade, a new wave of emails attempting to extort money from Ashley Madison victims has appeared, and it's something they haven't seen before.

Ruby CISO Matthew Maglieri on How to Bounce Back From a High-Profile BreachThe Ashley Madison breach of 2015 quickly became one the most famous of the high-profile hacks. Three years later, CISO...

Proposed US Settlement Follows Massive 2015 Data Leak by 'Impact Team' HackersAshley Madison wants to put that sordid data breach affair behind it. Parent company Ruby Life has reached an $11.2...

Ruby Life Inc., the owner and operator of the online adultery service Ashley Madison, has offered to pay $11.2 million to individuals affected by the 2015 data breach. read more

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users whose...

Criminals are still trying to shake down users of the Ashley Madison dating/cheating online service. As you might remember, the service was hacked in 2015, and the attackers stole sensitive...