Trustify sock puppet claims, Trustify sock puppet claims "the only emails tied to the search tool are the verification emails."

By Susanna Speier

Denver Private Investigator Blogger

Trustify has updated their Ashley Madison search tool. According to internationally renowned web security expert, Troy Hunt this is a "positive change." Trustify's choice, according to Hunt, is "publicly now is the right thing to do."  

Does he think Trustify is still blasting out those extortionist 'your boss might know' emails? "I don't know" Hunt tweeted back, "You'd need to find someone in the dump in order to check that."

Related story: is Trustify trustworthy? 

About an hour later someone named Elliot Volkman weighed in, too: "The only emails tied to the search tools are the verification emails.," he said. Although Twitter and Linkedin bios indicate no Trustify affiliation, a Technical.lyDC article by Lalita Clozel refers to him as Trustify's "Head of Content Marketing" and states that Volkman, "recently deleted the messages and made his social media accounts private after receiving death threats." Yikes!

In the article CEO Danny Boice echoed Volkman's claim that Trustify is no longer harvesting email addresses which is another step in the right direction. So now do you trust Trustify? 

No rush to decide since Trustify is not the exclusive gatekeeper of the hacked Ashely Madison data.  Want to find out whether you or one of your clients' Ashely Madison info was released in last month's data dump? Both the New York Times and CBC News are recommending you go to Troy Hunt's database HaveIBeenPwned? where you can find out for free.