This is awkward (or karma?): AshleyMadison.com, a website for would-be adulterers whose motto is "Life is short, have an affair," has been hacked, threatening the security of its millions of users, Bloomberg reports. A group calling itself "The Impact Team" claimed responsibility for the attack, posting a banner on AshleyMadison.com threatening to publish "all customer records, profiles with all the customers' secret sexual fantasies, nude pictures, conversations and matching credit card transactions, real names, and addresses" unless AshleyMadison.com and its peer site, EstablishedMen.com, are taken off the web.
The sites' parent company, Avid Life, claims it has closed any security holes, but it comes too late for information the hackers may have already transferred elsewhere. The hack comes just as Avid Life was preparing to go public with AshleyMadison.com, which reported sales of $115 million last year.
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