Ashley Madison - 'Welcome to the first day of the rest of your internet'

the incident, called DadSecurity

I thought the justification was that they were charging users to delete accounts and lying about having done it?

The users seem like collateral damage rather than being the focus, which makes it even more stupid in some ways.

yeah this isn't really 'hacktivism', it's just hacking, for lack of a better term

they have used a variety of justifications, all of which hold tiny amounts of water

it feels like an episode of black mirror

some other revelation needs to happen to really make this black mirror-esque

like finding out people really didn't use it for cheating but for some sort of complicated investment scheme

the ppl publishing this list are doing something much worse than the people they are trying to expose, it's prurient & self-righteous in the worst way

this will probably have an effect on the elections

write in votes for Ashley Madison

for sure, some political types are definitely ridiculous enough to have accounts on this

I mean, some have already proven themselves brazen enough to just hit on people on twitter or w/e, Ashley Madison is practically subtle in comparison to some of the shenanigans out there

i bet there were like 30-35 actual affairs conducted out of all this

Yeah, I wondered about that. A whole lotta lookers but not a whole lotta takers.

*shakes fist* where are the horney internet wives

tell me if you ever figure that one out!

is it just me or does the tone of that text file posted above read more than a little like some "men's rights" screed?

It does have the vibe of a jilted gent, refusing to be mocked or patronized! after he gets spammed for the 30th time.

https://ashley.cynic.al/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/19/snp-mp-michelle-thomsons-data-hack-adultury-ashley-madison

adultury

grauniad strikes again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/19/how-democrats-and-republicans-advertise-themselves-on-ashley-madison/?postshare=9621440011689864

Surprised "Intelligent.Introverted.Chivalrous.Ultralibertarian.Atheist" wasn't on an escort site instead of AM.

classic: "There were also mentions of Mitt Romney. One reads simply 'romney'. The other..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/3ebzzj/i_may_get_stoned_to_death_for_gay_sex_gay_man/

gonna see if i can never find out who AM is

You never will because it's not a person

there ya go

Prominent divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said the release is the best thing to happen to his profession since the biblical Seventh Commandment: do not commit adultery.

"I've never had anything like this before," he said.

so she was caught lip-syncing on the Simpsons. big deal.

gonna see if i can never find out who AM is

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You never will because it's not a person

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http://lparchive.org/I-Have-No-Mouth-and-I-Must-Scream/Update%201/img-2.gif

fuck these hackers and fuck everybody I know posting this jubilantly today.

just heard about mh's reddit post from a friend. shit like *that* is why this is fucked, that and the whole mass presumptions and internet morality police performing a service that nobody requested that will likely take down a shitload of innocent people down with the guilty.

(the post he shared, obv he didn't make it)

'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.'

i mean, who cares then? what's the point? is it that different from i don't know... watching porn? how many users on the website are actually married? how much actual cheating was derived from the website? Seriously I am starting to think hackers are really just bunch of 14 years olds.

you ol' romantic, van horn street

attempted illicit fucking

with female bots

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyG5wtPh7I5s4DEfxItvRZyB95Y-YgdYPWJvqkb7HXxxmeCbrs
I am not amused by this development.

Funny, given the male/female ratio, that my two of my three friends with registered email addresses are women.

Three friends:
1) Finance guy, European, married to a friend of mine, two kids at home. European, so permitted swinging? Who knows.
2) Lawyer, gal, adventurous online dater between two marriages (and more than between?).
3) Arty gal, adventurous dater, never married.

What's an adventurous dater? First-date BDSM?

Just frequent dates and frequent action.

skydiving

*guitar squeal*

when i first heard of 'ashley madison', conflated it with 'laura ashley'
so to me 'ashley madison' always evokes prim flowery dresses

two of my three friends with registered email addresses are women

interesting (though upon reflection, not so interesting/surprising), i.e. why some women prefer to 'adventurously date' married men

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

that duggar guy is an asshole and a sex criminal but gawker should really just not talk about this at all right

the scale of relationship devastation & personal humiliation going on worldwide right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is

xxp, short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but

that duggar guy is an asshole and a sex criminal but gawker should really just not talk about this at all right

otm

probably cool to not link their stories where they reward hackers for their work by id'ing people's private data on "hey, it's out there!" ground

given that someone has posted a link that allows you to search the leak by email address itt i don't think linking to a gawker article can really be considered beyond the pale in this context

true true

XD

"Well, first... ok? Number one - why would anyone hack it again? I mean, they already got everyone's deets the first time, right? And two - hear me out, the second thing, see... they've got this new MASK feature turned on."

http://i.imgur.com/OTuSDB0.jpg

myspace so classic

How do they still have subscribers after revealing that all the Ashleys were fake?

i'm afraid i'll be laughing all night now

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/four-plus-years-later-ashley-madison-hack-is-used-in-new-extortion-scam/

In the past two weeks, researchers have detected “several hundred” emails that threaten to air those intimate details to the world unless the former subscribers’ pay a hefty fee.
“I know everything about you,” one of the emails, dated January 15, says. “I even know that you ordered some … let’s call them ‘male assistance products’ online on 12/11/2018 using your account at Bank of America N,a routing# 121000358 account# [redacted] for $75 for mailing to [redacted] CA [redacted]!” The extortionist goes on to say: “If you do not act very fast your full AMadison profile and proof of it will be shared with friends, family, and online over social media—and of course your internet orders.”

...Despite the damage done to millions of users and years of unfavorable news coverage that resulted, Ashley Madison continues to operate and even thrive by some accounts. According to a 2018 report from auditors Ernst & Young, there were 472,752 new Ashley Madison accounts registered monthly that year. A report published a year later said new registrations for 2018 totaled 5.3 million and on average there were 442,449 new Ashley Madison accounts registered each month. In this post, Ashley Madison claims to have 60 million members. The site’s tagline continues to be “Life is short. Have an affair.”

remember when this happened

I could've swore this was like 2008, not six short years ago.

so many lives ruined

i was right

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right?

probably not

*wonder years narration voice*

ok someone do the final episode epilogue for the celebrity "exposure" crew who was ruined by this

its really amazing that nothing came out of this

One Douche Life To Live

oh wait one thing did my older brother (who is not married) was on it lol

As the World Douches