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Posted on 08/24/2015 5:23:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
John McAfee may no longer be associated with the famous security company he founded, but he still writes about and consults on the topic, and he now claims to know the Ashley Madison “hack” was, in fact, data stolen by a “lone female who worked for Avid Life Media.”
His argument relies on two separate bits of evidence.
First, McAfee says the files found in the leaked database contain some peculiarities that he wouldn’t expect a hacker to normally access.
“The data contains actual MySQL database dumps,” he says, adding “this is not just someone copying a table and making [it] into a .csv file.”
In addition, the hack contains a lot of insider information. This includes employee stock options, the layout of the Ashley Madison offices, and the source code of every program ever written by the company’s employees. Further, McAfee says statements made by the alleged hackers seem to be hostile towards certain employees, like the company’s VP of Information Technology, and favorable towards others.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Deep throat???
If this is true, she is toast. Regardless of ethical reasons, what she/he did was illegal and should be easier to track than some out of network hacker.
This actually wouldn’t surprise me.
The thing then that becomes the obvious question is how did this person develop a conscience in regards to their employer? No one going to work for that site didn’t know what they did yet the moralizing that occurred justifying the leak flew in the face of it.
If what he says is true you now have to look at disgruntled former employees or inter office relationships gone bad or perhaps, not known. Wouldn’t it be ironic if it involved people working at Ashley Madison having an affair that caused the site dedicated to having affairs that brought it down?
Karma is what it is...
Maybe it was Ashley’s jealous kid sister - Britney Madison.
CEO’s wife?
What a genius...
Did he have any comment on Hillary’s Private Email Server?
"On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a "person of interest" in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull. Faull was found dead of a gunshot wound on November 11, 2012, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize.
Faull was a neighbor of McAfee. In a November 2012 interview with Wired, McAfee said that he has always been afraid police would kill him and thus refused their routine questions; he has since been evading the Belizean authorities.
Belize's prime minister Dean Barrow called McAfee "extremely paranoid, even bonkers". McAfee fled Belize when he was sought for questioning concerning the murder"
I guess he's feeling better now
I did a search for the list because I’d like to see how many .gov accounts are there. All I get are articles about the list, but no list.
Maybe it was Caitlyn...
This does indeed make a lot of sense, now that I think about it. If I were an otherwise disinterested hacker, I would probably try to monetize the hack - you know, “give me ten million bitcoin or else...” I’d give it a shot, anyway, or sell it to someoned who would.
Sounds to me like someone not only wanted them down, but they wanted to, pardon the pun, screw ‘em pretty royally. Either way, nobody involved comes out looking good, or even remotely sympathetic.
The ultimate internet honeypot? Hackers said AM charged $19 to wipe accounts clean. They didn’t.
NSFW
and the plot thickens.
Good catch there John.
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