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j4d3 · 3164 days ago · link · · parent · post: John McAfee: Ashley Madison database stolen by lone female who worked for Avid Life Media
It's interesting that John McAfee thinks a dump of everything in a MySQL database is harder than producing CSV's. A database dump is a single command. If you have the password for a MySQL server, and no further security measures were in place, you have access to everything stored there. Depending on the company, they could be storing credit cards and stock option allotments on the same server. The scumbag thing did remind me of that I Shot Andy Warhol gal, and the Valentine's Day reference made me think, "Aww, you weird precious sweetie." It could be a woman. But it could be a woman who cracked or acquired a single password, not necessarily an insider who used "guile". Yuck.