Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
British government staff and council workers used their official email accounts to sign up to affairs website Ashley Madison, it has been claimed. Dozens of email addresses linked to top Westminster departments and some of the nation’s biggest local authorities have now been published online, suggesting public servants may have tried to arrange affairs whilst they were supposed to be working. The names and email addresses have been extracted from a huge data cache released by a hacking squad called The Impact Team, before being published on easily accessible web forums. Ashley Madison generally requires an email account to be verified before it can be used to arrange affairs, suggesting wannabe cheaters would use a real address. However, the list includes several emails which are obviously fake, including one entitled “tblair@labour.gov.uk” – which is quite clearly not genuine. Up to one million Brits are thought to have signed up to Ashley Madison, which claimed a total global membership of 37 million people. The effect of being named and shamed is likely to be so devastating that experts have warned cheaters could be driven to suicide if their secret shame is exposed. The full 10gb data cache is available on the […]
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