Ashley Madison hackers make good threat to publish user details

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Ten gigabyte dump on .onion address includes users' names, addresses and credit card details

The hackers who last month claimed to have penetrated the (seemingly lackadaisical) security of infidelity dating website Ashley Madison have made good on their threat and dumped 9.7 gigabytes of u...

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