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Well, this should be interesting. Hackers who claim to have stolen data from Ashley Madison, the dating site for cheaters, recently posted nearly 10-gigabytes of said stolen data. That includes member email addresses, credit card transactions, and even profiles. This should be very interesting.

The data can be found on the dark web, and those who’ve already downloaded it say they’re finding all kinds of juicy gossip. (One person searched for British government emails, for instance.) The hackers themselves, however, don’t seem at all miffed about this massive release of purportedly private and possibly damaging information. Because Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, refused the hackers’ demand to take down the site, they don’t think the users deserve privacy.

The Ashley Madison Hackers Just Released a Ton of Stolen Data

Calling themselves the Impact Team, the hackers said:

    We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data … Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters. …

    Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion. Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver.…

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Well at least they seem honest?

Here’s a screenshot of the full statement included with the release:

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The Ashley Madison Hackers Just Released a Ton of Stolen Data

[Wired, Ars Technica]

Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Please, let's not feed the people behind this justifications for doing it. They're not defending marriage, they're motivated like the Joker in The Dark Knight: it's for the lulz.

Way to focus on the real story, dumbass news people.

I have not seen a single news organization discuss the rampant fraud of having 90-95% male members, and mostly fake female profiles... Which to me is the larger and more "newsworthy" part of the release. CNN has spent 15 mins of every hour on this, and not a single mention of the site being fraud, but instead focusing on how the site was claiming "SEKRET" and instead had their complete anonymity destroyed.. I'd say it was literally impossible to cheat using that site if the only female profiles were fraudulent ones. Way to focus on the real story, dumbass news people.

So, apparently, Josh Duggar, child afficienado and family values advocate, had a paid AM account.  Color me shocked.

http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091 (http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091)

You can't take ANYTHING to your grave though.   :why_so_serious:

So, apparently, Josh Duggar, child afficienado and family values advocate, had a paid AM account.  Color me shocked.

http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091 (http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091)

I imagine they had some sort of free trial period?  You could probably only make a solid accusation once that email gives up a real, correct home address for the credit card validation.  Even then it could still be someone else, but they would have to know you.  If they have your email, home address and last four credit card digits though...

I wonder how they charged credit cards, did they use a made up business name?

This is starting to sound like an OJ book, my little monkey.

The tools thing seems easy to notice if you're paying attention, because at some point there's thousands of dollars of no tools not lying around. But anyway.

See, all that work to get around the wife finding out about affairs? Even if I were ever so inclined to cheat, that much work just to get my rocks off with some strange is simply way more effort than the resulting orgasms are worth.

If you cheat, you're a dick.  You do something with what you have, whether that's finishing your marriage/relationship for good or trying to fix it, but you do that first.  If you ever loved your partner at all, you wouldn't do that to them.  Being cheated on is horrible.  And it has nothing to do with sex except to the shallow prick who cheats. 

On Tuesday, a huge trove of data stolen from the extra-marital affairs website's servers was leaked online. As well as confidential internal documents, this included user data on the site's 32 million users. The info ranges from email addresses and financial details to physical descriptions and detailed sexual preferences.

According to multiple media reports on Friday, blackmailers have started trawling the database, widely available online, in an attempt to extort the users on it.

Bitcoin news outlet CoinDesk was sent an email from a reader who apparently had an account on Ashley Madison. The reader had received an email from a would-be blackmailer called "Team GrayFlay" threatening to expose them unless they sent the extorter some bitcoins.

Here's the part of the message they received:

U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking© Provided by Business Insider Inc U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Unfortunately your data was leaked in the recent hacking of Ashley Madison and I now have your information. If you would like to prevent me from finding and sharing this information with your significant other send exactly 2.00000054 bitcoins (approx. value $450 USD) to the following address…

Meanwhile, New Zealand publication Stuff.co.nz is reporting that an Auckland man has also received a blackmail demand from Team GrayFlay. "Consider how expensive a divorce lawyer is," the blackmailer wrote. "If you are no longer in a committed relationship then think about how this will affect your social standing amongst family and friends."

These may be the first blackmail attempts, but they are highly unlikely to be the only ones. The user info dump is fairly easy to find online, meaning that countless amoral opportunists are bound to try and take advantage of it in the weeks and months ahead.

After all: If Team GrayFlay (or any other blackmailer, for that matter) emailed all 32 million account holders, and just 0.01% of them agreed to pay up the $450 (£288) ransom, it would still earn them $1.4 million dollars (£0.9 million).

As unpleasant as this financial blackmail may be, it's not the worst aspect of the hack. The dump also contains around 15,000 US military and governmental email addresses. Many are definitely fake (users are not required to verify their email address upon signing up), but it's clear there are thousands of users with sensitive jobs that have been compromised by the leak.

Intelligence agencies are probably already "digging" through the data and considering how it can be used to leverage the individuals named within it, one cybersecurity executive told The Hill.

If you cheat, you're a dick.  You do something with what you have, whether that's finishing your marriage/relationship for good or trying to fix it, but you do that first.  If you ever loved your partner at all, you wouldn't do that to them.  Being cheated on is horrible.  And it has nothing to do with sex except to the shallow prick who cheats. 

 

What are we at now, near 70% divorce rate?  The vast majority of those involve some sort of infidelity if not simply at the tail end of an already ending relationship.

And those people are dicks.

Some Captain/cop from my city killed himself from this list. I heard a preacher in Lousiana did too.

There's gotta be more stories like this.

Strangely enough, I believe the hackers more than the company which seems to have up and created fembots to lure male customers into spending more money.

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The site runners were also in the process of creating some lame Gambling app as well.. and it was leaked in emails on how overt the scam was. Sounded like Bernie Madoff shit..

They're not to be trusted.

Again - why would they go through the trouble of putting real people into their systems that were not really customers?  And stealing their financial info to add to their systems?  And if they did, wouldn't some of those people noticed they were being billed?  It makes no sense.  Anyone that was on the list as a registered user with financial info that is/was a real person was a customer. 

Unfortunately your data was leaked in the recent hacking of Ashley Madison and I know have your information. I have also used your user profile to find your Facebook page, using this I can now message all of your friends and family members.

If you would like to prevent me from sharing this dirt info with all of your friends and family members (and perhaps even your employers too?) then you need to send 1 bitcoin to the following BTC address.

Bitcoin Address:
[...]

You may be wondering why should you and what will prevent other people from doing the same, in short you now know to change your privacy settings in Facebook so no one can view your friends/family list. So go ahead and update that now (I have a copy if you dont pay) to stop any future emails like this.

You can buy bitcoin using online exchanges easily. If the bitcoin is not paid within 3 days then my system will automatically message all of your friends and family members. The bitcoin address is unique to you.

Consider how expensive a divorce lawyer is. If you are no longer in a committed relationship then think about how this will affect your social standing amongst family and friends. What will your friends and family think about you?

Sincerely,
Laura

I'd bet money that "Laura" is a 23 year old Romanian dude.