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===Ashley Madison breach===
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In July 2015, a hacker group is known as The Impact Team successfully breached the extramarital relationship website Ashley Madison, created by Avid Life Media. The group claimed that they had taken not only company data but user data as well. After the breach, The Impact Team dumped emails from the company's CEO, to prove their point, and threatened to dump customer data unless the website was taken down permanently.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last = Mansfield-Devine
| first = Steve
| date = 1 September 2015
| title = The Ashley Madison affair
| journal = Network Security
| volume = 2015
| issue = 9
| pages = 8–16
| doi = 10.1016/S1353-4858(15)30080-5
}}</ref> When Avid Life Media did not take the site offline the group released two more compressed files, one 9.7GB and the second 20GB. After the second data dump, Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman resigned; but the website remained to function.