The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will investigate the circumstances of burglary extramarital dating website Ashley Madison, which is owned by the Toronto-based company Avid Life Media.
«The FBI is investigating. No details we can not provide, since we are talking about the ongoing proceedings, “- said in a brief written statement Wednesday that the United States federal agency, Tass reports.
It was reported earlier that the Internet portal Ashley Madison was “hacked” by hackers, and personal data of millions of its members committed the attack on the site of the person then posted on the Internet. It turned out that this array of information there, including details of government officials from the US and the UK, heads of commercial companies from Europe and North America.
How to Write edition Washington Examiner, on the site registered at least 44 people enjoyed e-mail system of the White House, 33 employees of the US State Department, 104 – Department of Veterans Affairs, 88 – the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 52 – Postal Service and 45 countries – the Ministry of National Security. In total, according to the Washington-based publication Hill, the services of Canadian firms resorted more than 15 thousand. Users of computers belonging to the military and government agencies in the United States.
It is possible that at least some of these e-mail addresses can be forged. At the same time representatives of the portal is already acknowledged that a portion laid out in a network of personal data, including names, is genuine.
The audience site Ashley Madison, by its own estimates, amounts to more than 35 million users in 48 countries. Hackers broke into the portal in July and were not ready to spread the network personal data of customers Ashley Madison only if it will announce its closing.
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