Ashley Madison keeps calm, carries on after hackers expose lives of millions of its users Infidelity website Ashley Madison has pledged to continue operations after hackers leaked its customer database online. The Impact Team, which claimed responsibility for the hack on Ashley Madison and sister site Established Men, have made good on their threat to publish compromising information on millions of people. Around …
There's one woman in particular who is instantly identifiable, because of the order her email address comes in the file, and she's obviously just needing a shag.
I don't do that sort of thing, but I have seen so many asymmetric marriages, that this is a tragedy.
The reference for the lack of email verification goes to great lengths to point out that Ashley Madison is not just a website for adultery, and the damage that sensational media coverage can cause. Still the author couldn't resist describing it as an "infidelity website", "extra-marital sex hookup site", and assuming that everyone on there has a partner.
So long as they're paying, why should Ashley Madison care? A throwaway address wouldn't mean they're fake, just being careful to insure the wife won't find anything bad if she looks at their email.
The fact it is 90% men shows most of them were paying for nothing, probably half the women are men pretending to women, and half of the rest look nothing like their photos/description, so for every one desirable woman there are probably several dozen men (most of whom probably wouldn't be desirable to that desirable woman)
Tinder is free and even more discreet, not sure why anyone would pay for a site like this.
Several police agencies – including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation – have launched investigations into the attack.
I'm sure they are launching investigations with full resources as there's probably more than one well-placed politician on the list. I would, however, hope that some LEA takes a hard look at their business. This seems fishy that they're trying to act as if nothing has happened. No mention of the normal buzzphrases about how important your privacy is nor any statement about ID theft protection like anyone else who's been compromised.
No mention of the normal buzzphrases about how important your privacy is nor any statement about ID theft protection like anyone else who's been compromised.
Well, given the kind of care they have been taken with user data I am not that surprised - they KNOW that would sound hollow. Having said that, their press statements are heavy on buzzwords which pisses me off. "Freethinking" indeed. Oh, and mentioning "criminal" and "criminals" will really help - it will at best amuse the hackers, does f-all for the victims and doesn't alleviate the fact that they appear to have done a piss poor job of protecting their users (I personally don't care one whit whether the users were "legit" singles or cheating, that doesn't remove the sites' obligation to protect them).
So here's the lesson for y'all: if you receive a blackmail attempt, it's already too late. You're history.
Does Dr Chenxi Wang live in a glass house? I don't know, or care, of she's married, so I don't know of her husband's email address is on the list. but the blame for being identified as a user of AM should be primarily on the site's users, and secondarily on the hackers,
P.s.
Also, I wonder of either of the Clinton's are on the list.
"Furthermore, we will continue to put forth substantial efforts into removing any information unlawfully released to the public...."
Yeah - not sure they've grasped the enormity of this breach even now, nor ever understood any phrase they heard that involved genies and bottles.
I trust El Reg will keep us abreast of their attempts to remove the "information unlawfully released to the public". Unless they mean from their own systems of course.
This would be funny if it didn't have the potential to mess up so many people's lives. The breach was a disaster, but this recovery / face saving attempt is akin to watching someone trying to rescue people from a burning building by dumping a tanker of kerosene on it.
it is kind of funny, after a man gets older and cannot perform women dont give a damn, including most wives(you know its true!!) in a way it is sexist too, as long as you can get it up everyone wants to limit you, but when you cant, then you are discarded like a broken machine.
Well duh, that was part of the business play since Day 1.
I don't like this kind of web site at all. That it got hacked and exposed doesn't bother me one bit, and if it folds as a result, it is no loss.
I will not, however, say that ALM is getting what it deserves. There will be personal tragedies following this and that is sad.
But ALM can bite the bullet any time.
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