Posted on 07/20/2015 7:09:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hackers have stolen and leaked personal information from online cheating site Ashley Madison, an international dating site with the tagline: “Life is short. Have an affair.”
The site, which encourages married users to cheat on their spouses and advertises 37 million members, had its data hacked by a group calling itself the Impact Team. At least two other dating sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, also owned by the same parent group, Avid Life Media, have had their data compromised.
The Impact Team claims to have complete access to the company’s database, including not only user records for every single member, but also the financial records of ALM and other proprietary information. For now, the group has released just 40MB of data, including credit card details and several ALM documents.
According to the information security journalist Brian Krebs, who broke the news, ALM has confirmed that the hacked material is genuine, and the company is working to remove from the net the material that has already been posted. But the initial leak is just a taster, according to the Impact Team, which accompanied the data with a manifesto threatening release of further information if Ashley Madison and Established Men are not permanently closed.
“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online,” the group’s statement reads.
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Good, that site comes from the depths of Hell.
Well that there’s funny.
Nobody should have any expectation of privacy online.
A lot of divorce cases are going to swamp the courts in a few weeks.
Ashley Madison reflects the depth of how corrupt and ill our culture has become.
I wonder what would happen if the hackers send copies of those databases to divorce attorneys and private investigation firms?
That which is done in secret will be shouted from the rooftops
These types of sites are nothing but huge scams.. Recently a Japanese dating site of over 1 million members was audited and found to have only two, that’s 2, real female members. Like Ashley Madison, over 99% of the female profiles are manufactured by sub-contractors.
Yup.....pure filth. Makes a mockery of the vows you stand & take between your God & family.
Definitely not Anonymous - they go in for this sort of thing...
Anyone expecting privacy or secrecy in a third-party arranged or facilitated extramarital affair is an idiot asking to be blackmailed.
I can find little sympathy for such people.
Talk about chickens coming home to roost. Or roast, as the case may be.
I know two married men that should make a little nervous — both atheists from Massachusetts.
RE: I can find little sympathy for such people.
What many people don’t know or refuse to see are that many ‘gay marriages’ are actually open marriages.
So, Here’s the simple progressive solution -— MAKE MARRIAGES ‘OPEN’ and LOSE THE STIGMA. Heck, they’ve already redefined marriage, what’s a little tweaking after that?
RE: both atheists from Massachusetts.
Since they don’t believe that God gave us the Ten Commandments, what’s really wrong in their moral universe about adultery?
Is suspect this is how team Obama controls Congress and a lot of judges out there.
headline: Thieves Steal Cheaters’ Data.
Adulterers are morally sleazy. And pathetically stupid, to boot.
Should have been shut down a long time ago.
Marriages already are in a sense. While “Fault” divorce still exists and adultery is one of those faults, you will pay BIG bucks to go that route. The courts no longer see fault since “no-fault” was introduced (takes up too much time and court resources). My former spouse made mine and my kids life a living hell for over eight years and I was told even though I have enough proof of fault that disintegrated the marriage; even if I won by the time I was done I wouldn’t have anything left to lead a decent life with my kids. In other words, the attorney and judge advocate broke it down to the dollar figures. It was cheaper just going no fault.
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