Business Has anyone checked the leaked Ashley Madison CEO emails for evidence of affiliate shaving?

[signupdamnit]

Supposedly in the second dump release all the CEO's emails were published. This is almost the perfect scenario for catching a company cheating affiliates if they were doing so. Undoubtedly there would be evidence within the CEO's emails (communications with programmers, affiliate directors and managers,etc) if something like that were going on.

Note: I'm not asking for anyone to publish anything illegal here. I'm only saying it's a perfect opportunity for an audit.

[signupdamnit]

TrustedSec, OthersÂ*Confirm New Dump Of Estimated 200,000 Ashley Madison CEO Emails

After several false starts with dumps of corrupted and therefore inaccessible Ashley Madison CEO email files by hackers Impact Team TISI +%, a new file was dumped early this morning. This dump was confirmed by numerous sources, including Brian Krebs, who indicated that it looked ?like the third . . dump is a corrected version of AshMad CEO?s inbox, to fix the last dump that was corrupted.?

TrustedSec also confirmed this morning that Impact Team had released a new dump ?apparently fixing the zip file issue from the CEO?s emails from the 2nd dump release.? Further according to TrustedSec, the extracted size of the file is about 30G that ?on first pass shows that it is a Gmail archive file, ranging from July 7, 2015 back to Jan 10, 2012.? The file ?appears to contain approximately 200k total emails from 6800 unique senders to 3600 unique recipients.? TrustedSec indicated that it will not be doing any further analysis.

[ruff]

They will probably not survive this anyway, but it would be interesting to know.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by ruff

They will probably not survive this anyway, but it would be interesting to know.

I've never promoted them so I don't have any skin in the game with them but if I did I would definitely be checking. I'm not sure how the legalities would work with the stolen communications though if you did actually find something and want to take it to court.

[Paz]

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

I'm not sure how the legalities would work with the stolen communications though if you did actually find something and want to take it to court.

Not sure either. There's a class action suit over the first leak (the names/emails etc) and the lawyers are pouring over the leaked emails of the CEO now - they would have seized them anyway they are just getting them early (last paragraph in this article);
Ashley Madison: Boss's emails examined after leak - BBC News

In another article it was argued that companies working with sensitive information have a duty of care to look at the list to see if any of their employee emails are there (but there's no email verification so anyone can register with a dummy email).

What about all the Wikileaks files, weren't they obtained illegally as well? They're still online I think.

[j3rkules]

His analysis of the emails shows that the company will be completely wiped out by the lawsuits..

[JFK]

Originally Posted by jerkules

His analysis of the emails shows that the company will be completely wiped out by the lawsuits..

interesting

[Cyber Fucker]

I don't think they would use official email boxes for such subjects, unless they are very stupid.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by Cyber Fucker

I don't think they would use official email boxes for such subjects, unless they are very stupid.

Well apparently they were stupid enough to discuss hacking a competitor using email:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/...d-competitors/

Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals, but leaked emails from the company?s CEO suggests that AshleyMadison?s top leadership hacked into a competing dating service in 2012.