Ashley Madison hack: Site for people who can't be trusted can't be trusted Ashley Madison, a popular website for married people wishing to cheat on their other halves, has been hacked with obviously serious implications for those whose details it held. Previously unknown hacking group The Impact Team posted online caches of personal data stolen from the website, whose motto is "Life is short. Have an …
You'd stop finding it funny when you find your own name on there. Of course you might never have been a customer, but why should that matter. It would be trivial to add random or even targeted victims into the data. If they are mixing things in with the results of other data thefts they could easily have all the amo they need to take you down, innocent or not. When you've lost your home, you've lost your job, you've been banned from seeing your kids again, your parents have disowned you and your friends have all take your spouses side. Then see whether you still find things so amusing.
"You'd stop finding it funny when you find your own name on there."
With my credit card information and street address? Yea, right.
You don't have to invent personal details when there's a boatload of them already there.
Also: Who's stupid enough to sign to a _cheating site_ with their real name and credit card information?
Basically telling anyone in internet that 'heyhoo, I'm looking someone to cheat my spouse with! (and paying monthly fee for that privilege too)'
With real name and address .... I can't really comprehend that, un-fucking-believable.
How cheating the cheaters is not funny, tell us?
Me being among them or not is irrelevant, it's always funny.
"You'd stop finding it funny when you find your own name on there."
With my credit card information and street address? Yea, right.
As the post said, randomly added victims. You might not shop at findmeafb.com but you have shopped at imagood2shoes.com which has also been hacked, so just for a laugh lets add the goody2shoes in with the love rats. Lets see how many pay up when the shake down starts, sod it, we'll probably get a higher hit rate from goody2shoes.
Or targeted, you once had dealings with save/cullthebadger.com or the wrongchurch.com or any other organisation which some loony somewhere has decided to hate. They've been hacked, it's all the rage these days. So these scum have gotten your details from somewhere. My adding your not so innocent, in their eyes, names in with the poor frustrated customers of findmeafb they've got you well into the prove your innocent realm. And some shit never washes off.
How cheating the cheaters is not funny, tell us?
Because many more innocent people will get hurt than guilty ones.
At least in the UK, marital infidelity is not a crime, and is very rarely grounds for being dismissed by an employer. Your main worry is that your spouse might refuse to believe your denials. That aside, being on that list should merely be an embarassment. Also our libel laws are the strictest in the world. Anyone publishing the allegation that you were a signed-up cheater when you weren't, could be in expensive trouble.
(It occurs to me that getting yourself hacked into that list might be a route to simultaneous divorce and profit for you and your spouse alike ...)
AM engaged in such interesting practices as sending members who had yet to pay 'messages' from automated bots in the hope that they would pay to read them and charging people who wanted to delete - as opposed to suspend - their account.
Now, if you'd paid to delete your details and they turned up in the leak from this hack, I'd expect you'd be reaching for a lawyer, but not a divorce one.
To be fair, this site should be a prime target for the Chinese. Want to coerce a US official? Congrats, you now have leverage.
If I were a nation-state pulling off this sort of thing I'd try to mask my tracks by making it look like a hacktivist script kiddie attack.
Does anyone else hear that noise overhead?
Well, no.
My masturbation practices performed in the privacy of my own home aren't fodder for blackmail.
A video of myself performing said practices could very easily be used as fodder for blackmail.
There, see? Once you substitte the emotionally charged adultery aspect of this (which seems to upset you a lot), it becomes much clearer.
You're welcome.
"My masturbation practices performed in the privacy of my own home aren't fodder for blackmail."
That depends if you publically announce said practices and also who your employer is.... considering that you might be a priest, doctor or a primary school teacher....
If I publically stated that I am was into weird masturbatyion practices that wasn't tolerated by my profession or state of citizenship, then I could arguably get into a lot of trouble.
I could _not_ however be blackmailed - what would they threaten me with? repeating what I have already publically stated?
"I could _not_ however be blackmailed - what would they threaten me with? repeating what I have already publically stated?"
Mass Media version ( exagerated but entirely feasible):
AC has been officially recognized as the major public masturbator to all things underaged. ( Oops they modifed the truth) ... that you even go so far as to admit it publically on the Ashley Madison website ( now this would be the truth in part).
AC who worked for Mass Corporation Company ( who did not want to comment) in Bristol and who lives nearby actively pursues his masturbation activity behind closed curtains at his home in Unfortunate Crescent...
His neighbours stated that they often hear strange noises and coming and going at all hours of the day/night.. One of his old school friends stated that AC was always "touching" his pieces in the showers but as far as he knew was not directly invloved in sexual practices with any of his classmates..
The problem here is that even if the crackers drop the whole database in pastebin (pick an alternative), how many people are going to check every name they know. Then there's the problem of name collision. I know for a fact that there are 180 +/- people in my state (California) that share the same name (first, middle initial, last, just as I use them). Then there's name collision nationwide where there are multiple people with exactly the same name (first, middle, last). That doesn't even consider the idiots that keep signing up for things and using my e-mail address which dates back to the very beginning of GMail. Oh yeah, my identity has also been stolen at least once. That guy (?) is in New Mexico the last time I nailed him down.
Since my last name is pretty unusual, especially in combination with first and middle, ya'd think that this isn't the best way to identify if anyone you know is cheating. Absolutely know that is.
"My masturbation practices performed in the privacy of my own home aren't fodder for blackmail."
Priest: embarassing. (Is it less or more of a sin than actual sex)?
Doctor: recommended by recent medical advice discussed here in the Reg. Reduces your likelyhood of getting prostate cancer, if you're not in a relationship.
School teacher: that's one heck of a leap isn't it? I guess there are places in the USA it could be a problem.
Priest : So the guy wearing a frock, preaching about the rights and wrongs of the world with his dick in one hand and the bible in the other is not likely to be seen as a very credible, leader of the cock. flock...
Doctor : Let's just hope that he wasn't giving himself a quick hand job before you walk into his office for a tonsil examination. It wont be his vinyl gloves that are giving of that cheesy smell.
School teacher: One of your kids comes home from school and says, "guess what Mr Bates showed us today".
It's all a question of perspective.
Reports are, that divorce lawyers are ALREADY salivating over the possibilities. They might TRY the "fruit of the poison tree" doctrine to make the hacked evidence inadmissible, but with the data out there, other evidence could be easily found by investigation.
"No, the conducting of dishonest relationships and the breaking of legal contracts is fodder for blackmail."
The hackers should be careful who they blackmail. 99.99% of people would pay up or go to the police. 0.01% would put a contract out on the hacker. I doubt everyone on this site are Mr/Mrs Nice Guy just looking for a bit of fun, there's probably some serious psychos on there too as you get on every private site. Mess with their private data at your peril.
This is not terrorism .. this is criminality period. Calling anything and everything terrorism is simply removing any true significance to the word. And btw these people were adults , they know cheating is wrong they knew they could get caught so if they get caught .. that's their personal problem. I got no pity for self inflicted wounds.
And the cheated on husbands/wives/partners who now get to face a world in which all their colleagues and family know that their partner cheated on them?
How about those children who now get to be taunted in school of how their mom fucks around?
Will you rubb your thighs in quiet anticipation of their misery as well?
There will be other victims besides these "adults with self inflicted wounds".
If I read this correctly you tell us that no, we may not tell the cheated spouse that the other spouse is cheating because "other victims" will get hurt, right?
"Everything under carpet and it will be allright for ever"- ideology which leads just even worse suffering as the cheating will go on years and years. A betrayal too: You know the spouse is cheating but you don't tell it to the other spouse because the shiny image must be preserved at any cost.
And the cost is always higher than cost of telling.
Really, really bad ideology which transforms short term hurt to long term suffering.
>And the cheated on husbands/wives/partners who now get to face a world in which all their colleagues and family know that their partner cheated on them?
Do you really think most affairs manage to stay hidden? Of course a massive amount of damage is done by cheaters, but the damage is hardly inflicted by a website hack. If you need a website to have an affair, that isn't an affair, that's "Adult Friend-Finder" / "Moms need to F*#$%^ too!" trying to be up-market. I didn't think the fancy name and pretty graphics fooled anyone.
I'd call advocating, threatening or committing crimes against humanity a completely non-stupid definition. Many of the other (wider) definitions are also not stupid, although failing to bear in mind that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter certainly *is* stupid.
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