{"id":96267,"date":"2015-08-20T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=96267"},"modified":"2015-08-20T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T07:15:04","slug":"how-to-check-if-your-e-mail-address-is-in-the-ashley-madison-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/96267\/how-to-check-if-your-e-mail-address-is-in-the-ashley-madison-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check if your e-mail address is in the Ashley Madison hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/08\/check-loved-one-exposed-ashley-madison-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that websites are\u00a0available that let you check whether yours or a loved one\u2019s e-mail address was in the Ashley Madison database.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the recent publication of 37 million AshleyMadison.com users\u2019 data.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that around 175,000 South Africans may have been exposed due to the security breach.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers who stole the data, Impact Team, initially demanded that Avid Life Media take down Ashley Madison and its companion site, Established Men.<\/p>\n<p>Avid Life Media did not take down the sites, which lead to the hackers releasing the information.<\/p>\n<p>The sites and services below have used the data to allow people to search whether their or a loved one\u2019s e-mail address was part of the leak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustify.info\/check\" target=\"_blank\">Trustify<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustify.info\/check\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Cynical<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ashleymadisonleaked.com\/\">Ashley Madison leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribers of \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have I been pwned<\/a><\/strong>\u201d, who have verified the e-mail address they are checking, would already know\u00a0if they have been compromised.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Ashley Madison<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 175,000 SA cheaters exposed in Ashley Madison data leak\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/96133\/175000-sa-cheaters-exposed-in-ashley-madison-data-leak\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">175,000 SA cheaters exposed in Ashley Madison data leak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Cheating South Africans could be exposed in Ashley Madison hack\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/93671\/cheating-south-africans-could-be-exposed-in-ashley-madison-hack\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Cheating South Africans could be exposed in Ashley Madison hac<\/strong>k<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has reported that websites are available that let you check whether your or a loved one\u2019s e-mail address was in the Ashley Madison database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":96135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[10165,847,26],"class_list":["post-96267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-ashley-madison","tag-hack","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96269,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96267\/revisions\/96269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}