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2020
Extortion scam targeting Ashley Madison users reported
Issue disclosure
Vade Secure reported an extortion scam targeting Ashley Madison users. According to the report, users received extortion emails that used personalized information from the 2015 Ashley Madison data breach and demanded Bitcoin. The reported scam threatened to share users' information with family and friends.
Vade Secure reported that Ashley Madison users had received extortion emails using personalized information from the 2015 Ashley Madison data breach and demanding Bitcoin. The reported scam threatened to share users’ information with family and friends.
Source excerpt
Nearly five years later, email security company Vade Secure found that several Ashley Madison users had received an email from anonymous senders threatening to share their account details, along with other embarrassing information, to the users’ family and friends.
The emails demanded that in exchange for not sharing the details, the users pay the Bitcoin ransom equivalent of about $1,059.
In a blog post, Vade Secure reported that the emails are “highly personalized” with information from the Ashley Madison data breach.