Thunderstruck: AC/DC clue could identify first Ashley Madison hacker

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

The identity of someone with intimate knowledge of the hack on Avid Life Media’s Ashley Madison website may be revealed thanks to a track by AC/DC, the Australian rock band famous for pioneering heavy metal and lead singer Angus Young’s school uniform stage outfit. What has this to do with the highly damaging leak of the Ashley Madison customer database? In a press conference this week the Toronto police department investigating the attack revealed a previously unknown fact about the day the company was breached. Acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans said that when Ashley Madison staff logged on to their PCs on 12 July, they were greeted with the hackers’ manifesto accompanied by the song Thunderstruck by AC/DC. While this may not seem particularly significant, it did strike a chord with the investigative journalist who broke the Ashley Madison story in July. Following the press conference Brian Krebs remembered a mysterious Twitter account he had encountered soon after he published his exclusive story last month. Within hours of Krebs publishing his exclusive story on 19 July, the Thadeus Zu account tweeted a link to the Ashley Madison source code, the same cache of data that had been confidentially shared with […]

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