The Ashley Madison hack is one of the biggest cybercrimes in internet history. It remains unsolved, and some of the more insidious aspects of the story remain obscure.
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as…