Posted on 07/22/2015 4:42:13 PM PDT by markomalley
For a website like AshleyMadison.com that prides itself on secrecy and anonymity, a breach like this can be catastrophic. The site’s subscribers pay to have access to other married people looking to have affairs. They all, presumably, felt that their private information was safe.
“The quick answer is: not that safe,” says Dr. Michael Sulmeyer, the director of the Cyber Security Initiative at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center.
He says Ashley Madison’s clients know now the truth of the web: everything is hackable.
“Largely, you should not have an expectation of ultimate security and privacy,” Sulmeyer explains. “And operate with the understanding that things can go wrong despite all promises to the contrary.”
The group believed to be responsible for the hack claims to have stolen private information from all 37 million Ashley Madison users. On Tuesday the personal details of two subscribers leaked. One man is from Canada – the other from Brockton.
What was revealed is intensely personal. Among the data released about the Brockton client of Ashley Madison: His user ID is “Heavy73″; he listed himself as “married/attached”; he joined the site the day after Valentine’s Day, 2014; he likes “cuddling & hugging” and is into “discretion & secrecy”.
Sulmeyer says highly motivated hackers can be determined to get into sites like this, looking for intimate even embarrassing details.
On any such site, he says, users can and should change their passwords often.
“Even with that you should not believe that you have total privacy. And if you are really one who wants total privacy then you should not probably be getting on websites like this,” Sulmeyer says.
The hackers are demanding that the whole website be taken down or else they will release all the names and private data they have.
Stupid squared.
Immoral and Stupid is no way to go through life.
Hopefully they dump the data to the web en masse. Let the POS’s suffer the consequences.
I suppose once your photo is on the site
it dosent matter what your “Handle” is.
Heavy73..? I love it when you call me big pappa.
Oh, my heart bleeds.
Someone get me a tiny violin.
This is one time where I say, “Go Hackers!”
The local courthouse was closed on this news due to divorce lawyers salivating so much the place flooded.
I figure most of the photos will bear a striking resemblance to Brad Pitt, LOL!
Holy smokes... 37 MILLION users...?
Divorce Sunami time...wonder if anyone ever ran into a spouse there??
Such as your medical Obamacare records, military records(cuidado Kerry,) Birth records (cuidado Obama)bank statements, etc. etc. etc. If you are not squeaky clean, and who is, cuidado!
Bet most of DC is panicking.
I was fortunate to have had a wife where adultery was not remotely a concern for either of us. But I have a special hatred for the garbage that does so partake.
There is not enough misery in the world for me to wish heaped on them all and be satisfied at the pile.
My buddy’s neighbor is an ambulance-chaser grade divorce lawyer, and he’s getting ready to release a bunch of radio and TV ads.
This will be the Mother of all Schadenfreude.
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