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Ashley Madison employees came to work and heard AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck' from their PCs after hack

It appears that large-scale corporate cyber attacks may have a theme song.

According to the Toronto police, Ashley Madison employees came to work on July 12th and were met with their PCs blasting AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and their monitors stuck on a 'threatening message' that private data belonging to million of users was soon to be released.



As we all know, earlier this month the attackers released the names, email addresses and more of nearly 50 million cheaters and would-be cheaters as well as emails and financials for the company and employees.

In 2012, it was reported that an Iranian scientist had heard Thunderstruck from his PC following a cyber attack, so is it possible that hackers have a theme song?

.@TorontoPolice handing out lyrics to "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC before their #ashleymadisonhack presser...#karaoke? pic.twitter.com/LYff3YYdS1

-- Phil Perkins (@PhilPerkinsCHCH) August 24, 2015

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 26 Aug 2015 20:03

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• 3 comments

• Mysttic

  That's so bad-ass and well played.

  26.8.2015 21:05 #1

• motormous

  think its pretty pathetic. what someone chooses to do with their private life is theirs and not for a chicken cyber terrorist to decide
  

  28.8.2015 08:10 #2

• Steel-Ice

  No, someone cheating on their spouse is pretty pathetic. If you didn't want a monogamous relationship you shouldn't have married that person. What goes on in the dark comes to the light. These people are getting their just desert.
  

  1.9.2015 16:17 #3