Pls anybody explain to me how to open .dump file of Ashley Madison leak?

1) it's plaintext so you can open it in any normal text editor. That said:

2) it's huge. unzipped aminno_member_email.dump came to 1.7gb so any normal text editor will roll over any die.

You really want to use a linux text search tool, like grep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

There are versions out there for windows (cygwin, wingrep, etc), but I don't have any experience with them. Try them if you want.

I was going to write the instructions to downloading a linux iso, and using grep, but I figured I'd make both our lives easier and show how to do it through windows. All the software below is free

1) Make sure the file you want to search is uncompressed. If the file ends in .gz it's compressed. If you don't have 7zip, download it, and use it to extract the file. As I mentioned the uncompressed dump file aminno_member_email.dump is about 1.7bg if it's smaller than that, it's probably compressed. move this file to your desktop, so we know where it is in a setp or two

2) Download and install mobaxterm. http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html. (use the installer option, not the portable option) mobaxterm has a lot of tools built in, one of which is the cygwin tool. You can download and use cygwin, but mobaxterm makes it very easy

3) When you run it, you'll get a window like this http://i.imgur.com/VwO6eP3.png click start local terminal. In the black window, type

cd Desktop

This changes directory to the desktop. Type

ls

and you will see a listing of all files in this directory. you should see your file there.

4) I'm going to search for [email protected]

grep [email protected] aminno_member_email.dump

You'll get a printout of any lines (the full line, in these files each line has a lot of data, so you might still have to do some searching, the text you searched for will be red, which should help

Hope that helps, let me know if I can give more details on any step.

I couldn't see anyone who had done this already, so I extracted just the email addresses from the aminno_member_email.dump file, this reduces the file from 1.7gb to 700mb, and makes searching easier and faster. I'm uploading it to mega.co.nz now, I can give you a link in the morning if you want. It's still 32 million lines long, one email address per line, so you're still not going to be opening it up in notepad

I haven't bothered looking at any file other than the email dump.

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