Hacked hookup site Ashley Madison's security was laughable Ruby Corp, the rebranded parent company of illicit-affair-arranging outfit Ashley Madison, has had to enter into court-enforceable orders with privacy authorities in Canada and Australia, following the findings of a joint investigation in the two countries. After the company was hacked by Impact Team, it was pretty clear that …
Nah, with such an elevated standard of morals I suspect they'll simply let it go bust so fat chance that fine will ever be paid - I suspect they will have parked their income elsewhere anyway.
Besides, US agencies need blackmail material so I give that a few weeks before it's online again in just the same fashion.
...you stood a better chance of not being caught by your wife (I think there were only 3 real woman on the site from previous articles) if you asked your wife to arrange a date for you because you were planning to have an affair starting the conversation with "this is serious, I want...."
Ok, maybe AM's site exposed you to slightly less chance of frying pan damage or a bobbiting. Slightly less....
I don't see how their security was any worse than a lot of sites out there - security these days is a state of mind, not a real physical thing. We like to believe that it has some sort of meaning but realistically almost every website is just one zero-day exploit away from full disclosure.
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