Adultery Website 'Ashley Madison' Hacked, Info Posted Online
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Story @ AP.Org
The parent company of Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says it was hacked and that the personal information of some of its users was posted online.
In addition, the person or persons behind the attack are threatening to release all of the site's personal information — including its members' sexual fantasies and financial information — if the company doesn't take Ashley Madison offline, according to a prominent security blog.
Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc. says it has had the hackers' posts — which included snippets of personal information — taken down and has hired a technology security firm. The company and law enforcement agencies are investigating.
The breach was first reported late Sunday by Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity, a website that focuses on cybersecurity. Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair," purports to have 37 million members.
The hacking follows the May breach of the dating website Adult FriendFinder, which involved the theft of names, email addresses and information about the sexual orientation or habits of up to 4 million of that site's members.
According to Krebs, the hacker or hackers, in the Ashley Madison breach identified as "The Impact Team," posted large caches of data from the Ashley Madison site, claiming to have compromised user databases, financial records and other information.
Besides random personal data from members, the hackers also posted maps of the company's internal servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information, Krebs says.
The hacker or hackers also posted a manifesto alongside the data, accusing Avid Life Media of lying to its customers about a $19 service that would scrub all of their personal information from its data bases, saying that the data doesn't actually go away," Krebs says.
The hackers say that if Avid Life does not take its Ashley Madison and Established Men sites offline, it will release all of the company's information — including customer records, nude photos, sexual desires, online conversations, matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, along with employee documents and emails — according to a screen capture of the hackers' manifesto posted by Krebs.
Avid Life released a statement Monday morning saying that it has been able to secure its sites and close the back doors into its systems.
"We are working with law enforcement agencies, which are investigating this criminal act," the company's statement reads. "Any and all parties responsible for this act of cyber-terrorism will be held responsible."
You can't trust Target with your personal information, no clue why people would trust a site like this. If you're gonna cheat, do it the old fashioned way.
By Moris Go To PostGER sweating on the lowNope. Thanks God for disposable tracfones
So the person who is either being cheated on or just unlucky enough to have their SO make an account even if they didn't do anything, now also gets their identity stolen?
I truly don't know but I can imagine I probably created a lurk account some years ago. I don't remember. I don't know if i put my info. I'm betting more than 3/4 of those accounts are just as not serious about it.
By Mrs. Manky Go To PostOnce all the fluff and fake names are thrown out…shit will get real.I'm waiting for a keyword searchable database
Wouldn't surprise me if there are false positives all up and down that site because it was filled to the brim with scam/spam accounts.
By db Go To PostWouldn't surprise me if there are false positives all up and down that site because it was filled to the brim with scam/spam accounts.
True.
By AlphaSnacks Go To PostGod I hope there were scummy politicians stupid enough to register…I want to see them burn.
Is Josh "Sister Toucher" Duggar good enough for you?
http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
By Mrs. Manky Go To PostIs Josh "Sister Toucher" Duggar good enough for you?
http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
So, so, good!
By Mrs. Manky Go To PostIs Josh "Sister Toucher" Duggar good enough for you?
http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Oh man, I saw this last night and wanted to post the apology letter here.
http://gawker.com/josh-duggars-apology-i-have-been-the-biggest-hypocrit-1725405629
Yes, this is fantastic. These are the kind of fucking pieces of shit that I hope get justice served. The holier than thou religious activists, the praisers of faith, and the hypocrites hiding behind religion in hopes their "prayers" will be their sanctity.
Fuck them all. They are scum. Karma's a bitch, and also a 'good' porn star, Josh. You should look her up.
By butt Go To PostThe internet justice boner that people are getting over this whole thing is pretty sickening.
I'll agree with this. I think cheating is pretty abhorrent, but it's not anyone's business to delve into. That being said, we will all read whatever large news comes form this.
Here's the thing. I have a problem with people shouting fanatical beliefs all over the media, telling others how to be good people, and how to get into the pearly gates of heaven with Jesus Christ. That's my problem. I also have a problem with people of power who are winning elections based on false beliefs and convictions that aren't true.
The everyday person I couldn't care any less about.
The everyday person I couldn't care any less about.
You have to read a headline even before you decide you aren't interested, at which point you're already complicit in a way. You have to take the good with the bad when it comes to reading the media.
Personally, I'll do my best to avoid this type of news even if I'm not perfect in that regard. I also think that the type of media moralising that comes out of these hacks are incompatible with a liberal/socially permissive/progressive society. I guess the problem starts with the fact that I don't think these hacks are a good way of exposing the hypocrisy of the preachy-types because they don't do so without compromising the privacy of individuals. I can't be bothered to care about the sex lives of politicians who often become subjected to these types of "scandals" because it is deemed of a public interest. Sexting, cheating, closeted Evangelical, people like this Duggar guy, who cares? It's not worth exposing the privacy of private individuals to catch even one of these fire-and-brimstone hypocrites.
Personally, I'll do my best to avoid this type of news even if I'm not perfect in that regard. I also think that the type of media moralising that comes out of these hacks are incompatible with a liberal/socially permissive/progressive society. I guess the problem starts with the fact that I don't think these hacks are a good way of exposing the hypocrisy of the preachy-types because they don't do so without compromising the privacy of individuals. I can't be bothered to care about the sex lives of politicians who often become subjected to these types of "scandals" because it is deemed of a public interest. Sexting, cheating, closeted Evangelical, people like this Duggar guy, who cares? It's not worth exposing the privacy of private individuals to catch even one of these fire-and-brimstone hypocrites.
I dunno I just never feel comfortable with doxxing even if the person is a hypocritical scumbag. I get that some hypocrisy comes from family values types pushing oppressive agendas but it seems like that tide has already turned and some vigilantes are just out for schaudenfraude or social blood.
Not down with cheating, but not down with publishing people's home address and credit card info either.
Hey look, another Holier Than Thou personality made it.
http://gawker.com/viral-christian-pregnancy-youtuber-sam-rader-had-a-paid-1725258643
http://gawker.com/viral-christian-pregnancy-youtuber-sam-rader-had-a-paid-1725258643
A newspaper here did a break down of the rough area where all the accounts originated. 521 accounts from my town and surrounding areas.
It's a clear case of something we might not agree with personally (you might even say morally), versus an actual crime.
I don't necessarily feel bad that preechy hypocrites are being shamed. But I don't like that anyone's bank details etc are released. That compromises everyone. ( A lot of the people who will steal that information and do thing with it are not the people you want having access to a lot of money).
I don't necessarily feel bad that preechy hypocrites are being shamed. But I don't like that anyone's bank details etc are released. That compromises everyone. ( A lot of the people who will steal that information and do thing with it are not the people you want having access to a lot of money).
Yeah, not cool releasing the bank details and such. In this day and age though, it's pretty easy to cancel and get new cards and numbers, but it's still a pain in the ass.
By AlphaSnacks Go To PostHey look, another Holier Than Thou personality made it.dude claims his wife and church cleansed him of that so look the other way. Tho i'm pretty sure they just want to get it away from them since they posted a video about their miscarriage last week from the looks of their channel
http://gawker.com/viral-christian-pregnancy-youtuber-sam-rader-had-a-paid-1725258643
People should really be smarter than just saying it's all clear who's at fault there
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/24/22750487/ashley-madison-hack-all-fun-and-puritanical-games-until-somebody-gets-dead
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/24/22750487/ashley-madison-hack-all-fun-and-puritanical-games-until-somebody-gets-dead
By Prototype Viktor Go To Postdude claims his wife and church cleansed him of that so look the other way. Tho i'm pretty sure they just want to get it away from them since they posted a video about their miscarriage last week from the looks of their channelCleansed him of what? Wanting side pussy? No church is gonna cure that m8
What I discovered was that the world of Ashley Madison was a far more dystopian place than anyone had realized. This isn’t a debauched wonderland of men cheating on their wives. It isn’t even a sadscape of 31 million men competing to attract those 5.5 million women in the database. Instead, it’s like a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots.http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944
Those millions of Ashley Madison men were paying to hook up with women who appeared to have created profiles and then simply disappeared. Were they cobbled together by bots and bored admins, or just user debris? Whatever the answer, the more I examined those 5.5 million female profiles, the more obvious it became that none of them had ever talked to men on the site, or even used the site at all after creating a profile. Actually, scratch that. As I’ll explain below, there’s a good chance that about 12,000 of the profiles out of millions belonged to actual, real women who were active users of Ashley Madison.
And here I thought OKC was bad.
Uhhh...holy shit. Wouldn't that make AM one giant online brothel then? They must have one clever way of skirting the line of prostitution. It makes me wonder if these chicks were part of an escort, or where actually legit members. If so many of the female accounts were shells, this all feels sooo shady.