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McAfee Founder Believes Ashley Madison Hack was an Inside Job Instead of Viable Hacker Group

ashleymadison hack job inside workThe news has broken to the world in more ways than one about how hackers have exposed the user data of the affair website AshleyMadison.com. As the backlash of the hacking incident implodes on its users while many married couples await the news to find out if their significant other was a user, the hacker group Impact Team who claims responsibility is suspected to not be the real culprits.

John McAfee, found and former CEO of the cybersecurity firm McAfee, has recently made a case that some are raising eyebrows to attributing that the Ashley Madison hack was an inside job by one of the company's employees.

This is not the first time John McAfee has been in the news. At one time he was sought for questioning in the killings of a former neighbor of his. Since then, the media has not conjured up any significant stories until now with him making a strong case about the Ashley Madison hacking incident being conducted by a female employee of the umbrella company, Avid Life Media.

In McAfee's claim to this wrench in the headway made by authorities looking into the Ashley Madison hacking case, he says there are suspicions about the hacking group who calls themselves The Impact Team. He goes on to claim that the Impact Team has never had any other previous significant hacking cases. Furthermore, the group's name has never appeared anywhere else in a prior hack.

As we know all so well, established hacker groups have a reputation they tend to uphold and have overcome many obstacles in past hacking attempts. At the same time, well-known and established hacker groups make a point to publicize their recent achievements through several mediums, including social media. As it turns out, McAfee may be onto something in his assumptions considering how The Impact Team has never broadcasted previous hacks.

In analyzes of the hacked Ashley Madison data, McAfee is able to come to his conclusion of the hack being the work of an employee within Ashley Madison and their Avid Life Media company. The data supposedly made off with contained Ashley Madison staff-created status, IP addresses for all Ashley Madison servers, office layouts, detailed activity charts for all internal departments, and stock option agreements. With such specific information, the work to uncover it wouldn't be from a simple hack. Instead, as McAfee exclaims, the data is raw source code of internal applications.

As Mr. McAfee puts it, "of what value would this be considering the hacker had already made off with potentially billions," meaning that the hacker already held information about credit card transactions and personal user data. Such information would be needed for committing different types of fraud over the internet.

McAfee could very well have a valid case with his assumptions. For now, until the authorities sort out the matter while wives and husbands file for divorces after discovering their partner being one of the Ashley Madison customers, we won't know for certain if this McAfee theory is 100% valid.

John McAfee has left us all with his current concluding statement to get us all to understand where exactly he is coming in the new assumption: "Anyone who ever had a significant other knows that women rate Valentine's Day higher than Christmas, and men think so little of it that they have to remind each other the day is nearing. To call an act the day after Valentines Day 'spiteful', is a thought that would enter few men's minds. If this does not convince you then you need to get out of the house more often."

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