For the past few days, the Impact Team has been stirring the Internet with the upload of files containing Ashley Madison users' account information.
The data included personal details such as email addresses, home addresses, and even other important details of the 32 million registered users seeking extramarital affairs.
Since then, stolen data have emerged on torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, providing easy access to those who want to find out if their spouses are cheating.
The 9.7-gigabyte file was uploaded to the dark web on Tuesday, as reported in Wired, and it not only contained personal details as mentioned above but also transaction details for over seven years.
There were also reports that some of the uploaded files were corrupted and could not be accessed; hence the Impact Team might have failed to spread the information. However, a new set of files was again dumped in the morning of Sunday, as reported by Forbes.
The files were confirmed by different sources, with investigative reporter Brian Krebs saying that the latest dump was a "corrected version" to replace the corrupted files, according to Forbes.
TrustedSec also stated that the hackers released the new set of files and it even measured 30 GB when extracted.
The file seems to carry around 200,000 emails in total coming from 6,800 unique senders and 3,600 unique recipients. Based on TrustedSec's report, it will validate the authenticity of the files and will provide an update soon.
Meanwhile, the data dump had already exposed at least two users known to the public eye. The first one was "19 Kids and Counting" star Josh Duggar and another was Jeff Ashton, state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Florida, as reported by CNN.
Ashton reportedly said that he got curious about the site and decided to join in. He insisted that after doing so, things didn't move farther than that.
"While I indulged my curiosity about the site, it never went beyond that," he said, according to CNN.
Ashton served as the lead prosecutor against Casey Anthony, the woman accused of murdering her two-year-old child back in 2008.
Both Ashton and Duggar had issued their apologies after being revealed as subscribers to Ashley Madison.
