{"id":138344,"date":"2015-09-11T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=138344"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T07:26:49","slug":"ashley-madison-user-passwords-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/138344-ashley-madison-user-passwords-cracked.html","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Madison user passwords cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group calling itself CynoSure Prime recently discovered a programming error which allowed it to crack millions of Ashley Madison user passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The passwords are protected by bcrypt, a hash function to make cracking a password stored in a database difficult and time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2982919\/security\/ashley-madison-coding-blunder-made-over-11-million-passwords-easy-to-crack.html\" target=\"_blank\">CynoSure Prime found a weakness<\/a><\/strong> in the Ashley Madison source code \u2013 which was posted online \u2013 which allowed it\u00a0to crack the passwords.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2015\/09\/ashley-madison-password-crack-could-spell-trouble-across-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>, CynoSure Prime exploited the weakness to crack more than 11 million passwords, and it\u00a0\u201chopes to tackle another four million in the next week or two\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0Ashley Madison<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/136564-there-were-nearly-no-women-on-ashley-madison.html\">There were nearly no women on Ashley Madison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/136300-outed-ashley-madison-users-commit-suicide.html\">Outed Ashley Madison users commit suicide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/136062-sa-government-officials-academics-and-ceo-traced-in-ashley-madison-hack-list.html\">SA government officials, academics, and CEO traced in Ashley Madison hack list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 11 million Ashley Madison user passwords have been cracked, with millions more to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,22147,32798,3676],"class_list":["post-138344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-ashley-madison","tag-cynosure-prime","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138348,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344\/revisions\/138348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}