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A second, larger, data dump occurred on 20 August 2015, the largest file of which comprised 12.7 gigabytes of corporate emails, including those of Noel Biderman, the CEO of Avid Life Media. In response, Avid Life Media released a statement that the company was working with authorities to investigate, and said the hackers were not ' hacktivists' but criminals. Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn't deliver.' In its message, the group blamed Avid Life Media, accusing the company of deceptive practices: 'We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. The data was cryptographically signed with a PGP key.

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The information was released on BitTorrent in the form of a 10 gigabyte compressed archive and the link to it was posted on a dark web site only accessible via the anonymity network Tor. The site also offered to waive the account deletion charge.ДЄlthough Ashley Madison denied reports that a mass release of customer records occurred on 21 July, over 60 gigabytes worth of data was confirmed to be valid on 18 August. Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has now successfully removed the posts related to this incident as well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our users published online. Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber-terrorism will be held responsible. We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act. One statement read:ДЄt this time, we have been able to secure our sites, and close the unauthorized access points. The website's normally busy Twitter account fell silent apart from posting the press statements.

On 20 July 2015, the website put up three statements under its 'Media' section addressing the breach. The Impact Team announced the attack on 19 July 2015 and threatened to expose the identities of Ashley Madison's users if its parent company, Avid Life Media, did not shut down Ashley Madison and its sister site, 'Established Men'.