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systematical on Aug 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

Is there any information on how they were hacked? I'm more interested in how they were compromised than anything else.

fencepost on Aug 19, 2015 [–]

IIRC it was taken by someone who worked there as a consultant. There were more details back at the time it was first disclosed.

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