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 companys 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 groups statement reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
If you are not against what they are doing because you don't like the subject matter of that site, don't cry if they hack FR or some similar site and no one speaks up, or other support the hackers because they took down a conservative site...
These hackers are blackmailing criminal scum.
What’s shocking is that there are 37 million subscribers.
Adultery is bad. So is blackmail and extortion.
There are no good guys here. I’m just disappointed that it wasn’t a group of angry wives. LOL!
RE: Whats shocking is that there are 37 million subscribers.
Ashley Madison is used by people from 30 countries worldwide.
I’d really like to know how many AMERICAN subscribers there are.
This site:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/183663/number-of-married-couples-in-the-us/
Tells us that as at 2014, there are about 60 million married couples in the US. If the number of American subscribers number by the millions, this country is in bigger societal trouble than pessimistic me already think.
You are correct. ABsolutely.
My wife and I have had problems in our marriage. Audltery wasn’t one of them though, nor was addiction or gambling. Mainly, I can be a jerk unless I’m thinking about it.
However, over the years of commitment, we’ve worn the sharp edges off each other, and these are the very best years of our lives.
And they are just going to keep getting better, with God’s help.
My X cheated and left 14 years ago. I get a sinking feeling in my stomach just thinking about this site. . . .
Never heard of it before today, but then, I don’t have affairs....
This is one time that I’m cheering for the hackers. :-)
I just want to back up what Ghost wrote...
It’s all true: These days, even if every person on that website is caught cheating, their spouses might file for divorce, but adultery means nothing in divorce court. It doesn’t affect child custody or visitation, child support, or property division. Usually, it doesn’t even affect alimony. That’s why most people choose the “no fault” route.
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