Ashley Madison data posted
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Over 600 federal government email addresses appear on a list of people who subscribed to the Canadian-owned Web site Ashley Madison, which caters to married people hoping to have an affair.
A total of 163 subscribers appeared to have used the @forces.gc.ca domain assigned to the military. Sixteen came from the RCMP, and one address was registered to the secretive Communications Security Establishment, which guards government communications.
Some 222 Ontario government email addresses appear on the data, including 118 from the province’s Ministry of the Attorney General, which administers the province’s courts.
After eliminating duplicates, there are 273,320 ‘.ca’ or Canadian-registered, email addresses in the data.
Fourteen addresses appear to belong to people working in the federal prison system, and ten from the foreign service.
In all, at least 62 addresses are assigned to Canadian police forces, with 11 from Ontario’s Peel Regional Police and seven from the Toronto police.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2173972/rcmp-military-email-addresses-in-canadian-ashley-madison-data/
A total of 163 subscribers appeared to have used the @forces.gc.ca domain assigned to the military. Sixteen came from the RCMP, and one address was registered to the secretive Communications Security Establishment, which guards government communications.
Some 222 Ontario government email addresses appear on the data, including 118 from the province’s Ministry of the Attorney General, which administers the province’s courts.
After eliminating duplicates, there are 273,320 ‘.ca’ or Canadian-registered, email addresses in the data.
Fourteen addresses appear to belong to people working in the federal prison system, and ten from the foreign service.
In all, at least 62 addresses are assigned to Canadian police forces, with 11 from Ontario’s Peel Regional Police and seven from the Toronto police.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2173972/rcmp-military-email-addresses-in-canadian-ashley-madison-data/
I doubt much will come of the Ashley Madison hack with the exception that developers will keep working harder to make more authentic fake profiles. Newer intelligent bot severs are getting better at faking human interaction. Where there's a sucker there's the Internet.
I can't see how AM is gonna survive all this without going belly up. I mean who would want to sign up with them now?? You'd have to go through all the hassle of prepaid CC, fake name, fake email acct, fake phone.....fake everything.
Too much hassle
Too much hassle
V
Van Wilder
Hey Fuji,
Can you direct me as to where I can download the file? I've been trying for quite some time now and nothing seems to be working. The files that I have found have turned out to be SPAM. Thanks a billion Fuji.
VW.
Can you direct me as to where I can download the file? I've been trying for quite some time now and nothing seems to be working. The files that I have found have turned out to be SPAM. Thanks a billion Fuji.
VW.
You are wrong, I downloaded and viewed the file, while no credit card NUMBERS are in the file every credit card TRANSACTION is listed with the real name, real address, email, amount and date, of the purchaser. That information is linked to your AM profile so people can see what you posted on AM.
One thing though I don't think your MESSAGES are in the dump. What is there is your profile information, your headline, the things you clicked on being interested in and how you described yourself. Actual messages you sent don't seem to be in the file. They dumped out the user account data and the credit card transactions, I guess the messages would have been too huge to copy?
It is a bit tough. I used a tool called grep to search all the files for my name, email, postal code, etc, and extract any interesting lines into a smaller file and then I used a text editor to view the smaller file. The files are pretty huge so you generally can't just open them in most editors, but this approach resulted in a small enough file that I could read it in notepad.
It is not in a very accessible form.
The files are SQL dumps of tables from the AM database so anyone with a little programming skill would be able to load this data into a database and easily search it. Given how easy that is for a technical person I would expect to see web sites that expose all the data soon.
My question dealt with downloading the database, not sharing it. Someone else said that there would be sites wherein you can view the info as opposed to downloading it. So my question also dealt with the legality of merely viewing as opposed to illegally downloading the personal data. It was answered IIRC. Thanks TeeJay for your added input.
That was me too. So at any given time, an I.P. address that is associated with my computer is unique?
No, even with a dynamic IP, your IP stays the same till the lease on that dynamic IP is over. With a static IP, it is ALWAYS uniquely assigned to you.
Don't sweat the IP - nobody except your ISP can tell who is using one of their IPs at any given time. Even LE has to get a subpoena to get to the end customer. It's like trying to use a mortgage ID# to try and figure out what is the street address of the house. Only the bank can do that.
So even if you have a dynamic I.P. address, whatever is assigned to you that day or in your browsing session, is still unique to you for THAT moment in time or session, no?
Also, what if I don't refresh or switch off my modem? Will my 'dynamic' I.P. address be unchanged until I re-boot?
Except if my spouse knows my IP address because we use the same gateway to the Internet.
How much of a geek is your wife?
Because IP spoofing isn't overly complex and has been used for over a decade. And will she remember an IP from months or years back? Probably not.
Here is the link for the torrent.
https://thepiratebay.vg/torrent/12237184/The_Complete_Ashley_Madison_Dump_from_the_Impact_Team
I speculate it was former employee of Ashley Madison doing this.
It is unchanged till the IP lease is over. And that in itself is variable. Think days or months. You can reboot your modem all you want and it won't change.
Hi Serpent (How's it hangin'? Buddy we gotta hit the bars again one night),
I'm not worried about the trace-ability of my I.P. address to my real identity. I'm aware of what LE has to do as I've read cases on Internet Libel and Defamation law.
What do you mean by "till the lease on that dynamic IP is over"?
TeeJay mentioned that a dynamic I.P. address will also change when you re-boot your modem.
So I must re-iterate my question. Unless it changes or expires, even a dynamic I.P. address will be uniquely assigned to a user. IOW, no I.P. address can be assigned to two or more different users from different locations?
That is correct - unless it expires/changes, even a dynamic IP is assigned to a user.
And right - IP addresses cannot be assigned to two different users at any given moment in time.
As to what the other member was saying about modem reboot changing IP, that's slightly misleading. From Wikipedia:
And right - IP addresses cannot be assigned to two different users at any given moment in time.
As to what the other member was saying about modem reboot changing IP, that's slightly misleading. From Wikipedia:
As I was saying, it depends on the IP lease/renew period established by the ISP netadmin.
