AC/DC’s Strange Connection To Ashley Madison Hack
August 25, 2015, 8 years ago
Yesterday (August 24th), journalists attending a Toronto press conference surrounding the Ashley Madison leaks wondered why they were being handed AC/DC lyric sheets, reports Billboard.com.
The hard rock legends were the unwitting soundtrack of choice for the online criminals. The press conference revealed that when employees of the dating-by-way-of-infidelity website logged into their computers July 12th, they were greeted to a message from the hackers accompanied by AC/DC's 1990 song "Thunderstruck”.
Lyrically, the hit song is about finding yourself "caught in the middle of a railroad track" after a wild night of partying with women. "You've been thunderstruck," goes the chorus. It's not hard to see how this played into the hackers' agenda. Toronto police said the song soundtracked the hackers' message when it appeared on the computer screens of Avid Life Media employees, the company that owns Ashley Madison.
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