How Many 'Carlos Danger's About to Be Unmasked by Ashley Madison Hack?

Reaganite Republican ^ | 21 August 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Perhaps it's wrong to gloat, but I'm going to anyway because the very existence of this site has always bugged the $#*t out of me, standing as a glaring, in-your-face example of how our society is in complete and utter moral free-fall.

And now that there's been a second, even more massive dump of data from the shadowy, elusive 'Impact Team' -one that includes the CEO's own emails, even source code for all his websites/mobile apps, etc- this is a hack even a righteous man can love...

Credit card info, email/billing addresses, and other data released by the hackers has already been crunched by the AP to reveal Ashley Madison cheaters who were chasing-tail from numerous corporate entities, Wall Street banks, the United Nations, state universities, the US military, various federal agencies, even a White House advisor. Ashley Madison people have told law enforcement they suspect an 'inside job'.

Alas, IP addresses betrayed the ones who thought they were anonymous hiding behind a cutesie avatar, using pre-paid phone cards, and/or outside email accounts... and those who paid Ashley Madison $19 for a 'Full Delete' feature of their account/site activity will more than a little bit disappointed to hear that this accomplished NOTHING from the hacker's p.o.v., as all their information -including messages, fetishes, even stated sexual fantasies- remained on the company's server, in-full. 

Expect lawsuits from humiliated, furious, and recently-divorced/bankrupted plaintiffs to come by the busload. In a statement (he now surely regrets), Ashley Madison founder and CEO Noel Biderman once described his company's computer servers as 'kind of untouchable'. A group of Canadians has already filed a $760M class-action suit against the company, and it's only the beginning.

The site's (Canadian) parent company -Avid Life Media- was planning on issuing an IPO, but that's off now in the wake of the devastating hacks and their aftermath. They thought they were worth about a billion dollars, but that could get wiped out pretty quick. The company is trying to keep their chin up -'brand awareness is through the roof'- but you'd have to be pretty horny
-and stupid- to hand your info to a company like this anymore.

Some nuggets extrapolated from the 2nd nifty tranche of data 
(dumped yesterday):

• 15,000 email addresses were on government/military domains

• Ashley Madison accounts are linked to 'at least' two assistant U.S. attorneys

• There's also an IT administrator at the White House, along with workers at more than two dozen Obama administration agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security.

• Accounts were found for division chief, an investigator and a
  trial attorney in the Justice Department

• No US elected officials have been found yet, but
  plenty of Ashley Madison accounts came from House and Senate computer networks, so stay tuned.
  
  
• Names have come up for British, Australian, and other members of parliament overseas- hard to imagine all our congress-critters coming out of this one clean.
  
  
• Defense chief Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was investigating the dump, as such info can be utilized for blackmail, .mil addresses were found in quantity,
  and marital infidelity violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 
  
• a French leak monitoring firm counted 1,200 email addresses from Ashley Madison accounts with the .sa suffix (Saudi Arabia) where adultery is punishable by death.

As for Republicans getting caught up in this mess, there's not all that many
I really give a hoot about anyway, would rather have them exposed/purged than covered-up and excused-for... you're not going to find Ted Cruz' name in there, anyway.

[grania]

It's why I post here instead of places like Facebook or LinkedIn. I'm sure anyone who wanted to badly enough could figure out who "grania" is. I don't hide my age, location, career etc. But it's not pictures. It's not looking for love or whatever. It's not threats. Any categorizations I make have very careful "some" "many" etc adjective modifiers. I don't threaten anyone.

Another appalling thing...it's not on private computers their employers doesn't have access to. Smart people who work on computers for a living have another device with them at work which they use for personal stuff.

The kind of posting we do here is not the same as what these folks are getting in trouble for.

[wita]

just because someone who states God’s truth doesn’t live up to it, doesn’t make it not true.

Well said. God’s creation, man and woman, are if anything, human, and sinful, thus the need for God’s Son and his sacrifice in our behalf.

[Fai Mao]

There could also be a degree of simple morbid curiosity

I suspect there might people that are on that list who used it for a free trial just laugh at the perverts that would use the site. Thus those people are actually not guilty of anything of consequence

(They will not find name on the list)

[sportutegrl]

Am I the only one surprised we haven’t heard more names than the two mentioned already: Josh Duggar and the head of the Republican Party in Louisiana. I get the feeling that whoever is doing the ‘digging’ is only looking for conservative/Republican names, because they must have come up with hundreds of left wing ones.

[B212]

if this is the work of amateurs....just think what can be done by government employed professionals....

[2banana]

Defense chief Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was investigating the dump, as such info can be utilized for blackmail, .mil addresses were found in quantity, and marital infidelity violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

And the loss of your security clearance.

Of course, these rules do not apply to democrats.

[MrB]

I encountered a verse the other night that struck me.
Romans 9:33

Jesus is the “stone of stumbling” that is an offense to those who are working out their own righteousness and salvation.

His existence and message are “your works are worthless, you need Me”.
Very offensive.

[Irishguy]

there is a ton of websites about to go on line allowing you search. there is 2 up but they are questionable.

there is a lot of email names posted on the pastebin website...just go in a search for ashley madison.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

40 years next month.

[Da Coyote]

Just wait ‘til they unmask “The Great Bama” advertising for wimpy metrosexual willing to bend over.

[xp38]

IIRC when Tony Snow (RIP) became Press Secretary for the President he asked that his postings here on FR be deleted so the MSM wouldn’t hound him over them so there is truth to what you say. I imagine if any of us became rather prominent we might ask JR to do the same for us. Sadly that is the current political atmosphere we live in.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Very offensive.

You find Jesus' existence and his message offensive? I want to make sure I understood that correctly.

[Cementjungle]

Plugging your email into these search sites probably signs you up for another 10,000 spam mailing lists.

[Paradox]

So a couple of "conservative" have been outed, apparently by the media. The Duggar creep for one, and then some state other guy who says he was doing opposition research.

Another article says that dozens of WH employees were found, and that these employees had accessed the site from government computers (a clear violation of the law) but they were not releasing the names because they were "not elected officials." WTH? So these other two guys they outed might have been scumbags, but were not breaking the law, but the WH employees WERE breaking the law, but since they were not elected, they give them a pass?

I think that had this had happened during the Bush admin, every single name and email would have been released by the MSM.

[MrB]

No, _I_ don’t. I’m helpless to save myself and I know it.

But the verse states a truth - for those who are attempting to work out their own salvation, His message IS definitely offensive.

[areukiddingme1]

Did Tony post under his name?

[Junior_G]

I completely agree with your post. I feel like it’s only a matter of time until some left-wing hacker makes all of our real IDs public along with our FR posting histories. That might be fine for some, but I work in a leftist-heavy environment with a LIV/bordering-on-leftist manager. Any opinion to the right of what one might find on Huffington Post is hate speech to these people.

[Irishguy]

indeed there is a rumour going around that they were then trawling for email id’s at best or worse using it as a further threat, you are entering your email id because you were involved...

i guess guilty by association....

also there is the 2nd larger data dump now...i am guessing this is the pictures, emails and cc numbers...

[PoloSec]

Another striking verse:

Numbers 32:23b    and be sure your sin  will  find you out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jimmyray]

The cross is an offense