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

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/

The Toronto cops mostly recapped the timeline of known events in the hack, but they did add one new wrinkle: They said Avid Life employees first learned about the breach on July 12 (seven days before my initial story) when they came into work, turned on their computers and saw a threatening message from the Impact Team accompanied by the anthem “Thunderstruck” by Australian rock band AC/DC playing in the background.

well, I'm on Team Hacker now

they should have led off their manifesto with that tidbit

dang, mr ashley madison is gonna be sued into oblivion

Has anyone come up with an estimate for how many actual affairs came about through AM?

how would anyone on earth know that? jeeze

http://gawker.com/5928591/back-in-hack-computer-researcher-stumped-by-acdc-virus-at-iranian-nuclear-facilities

well, I'm on Team Hacker now

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 26, 2015 9:43 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

steady on now

it should be utterly plain that such a site would be a corrupt, exploitative sausagefest

this isn't the issue here

well, I'm on Team Hacker now

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:43 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? the people they attacked were the users of the site. if they gave a shit about the corrupt nature of the site owners they'd have just rendered the damn thing unusable.

so in summary most of the action anybody got was a little self tug-tug while staring at fake women.

in other words....

ARIANE

Krusty: Ooh! Sex Chat! (dials)
Voice: You've reached the Party Line! In a moment, you'll be connected to a hot party, with some of the world's most beautiful women! Now, let's join the party!
Krusty: Hello?
Man 1: Hello?
Man 2: Hello?
Apu: Are there any women here?
Krusty: Hello!?
Apu: Are you a beautiful woman?
Krusty: Do I sound like a beautiful woman?
Apu: This is not as hot a party as I anticipated.

why? the people they attacked were the users of the site. if they gave a shit about the corrupt nature of the site owners they'd have just rendered the damn thing unusable.

yeah I'm not condoning any of this I just think the AC/DC is a nice touch

Nazareth "Hair of the Dog" woulda been better

timing of this couldn't be better for Ashley Monroe's career tbh

meh...it is what it is. hacktivism will never cease to exist.

groups like cDc will continue to go against laws and the 'norm', both written and unwritten. but hopefully we can keep discussing ethics and morality more openly.

it's silly to think we can 'fix' these people or 'stop' h4x0rs

what's bizarre is people continue to do things on their machines or on the internet as if there were no trace of their actions

people in my hometown of conservative upper middle class gossip hounds are freaking out about this. I highly regret looking at the paid list. saw a bunch of friends' dads. it's quite scary that literally no data is safe. everyone has embarrassing shit buried in gchats or text. whoever compared this to a black mirror episode is otm.

When AM hit critical mass enough to get that brand recognition, every network security person I know was saying "wow, they're going to be the biggest black mail hacker target in existence."

what's bizarre is people continue to do things on their machines or on the internet as if there were no trace of their actions

^^^^^^^^

sad/screwed up that they even offered a "forget me" package for sale which they got tens of thousands of people to pay for (and obviously did not delete the data), at the very least there should be a class-action lawsuit that they lied on that one

there's already a $500+ milli class-action lawsuit happening... and apparently an AC/DC-loving suspect?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/security-blogger-may-have-new-lead-in-ashley-madison-hacking/?_r=0

"Yeah. But remember, we're the thunderstruck bandits. The thunderstruck bandits. T-H-U..."
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/christmasspecials/images/3/3d/Home-alone-17.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111109000314

i don't want to discount how awesome that Thunderstruck bit is
magnificent

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/26/ashley-madison-looks-like-it-w.html

An analysis of the accounts indicates that there were 20,000,000 men active on the site and 1,492 women regularly checking messages.

makes me curious about this article - http://www.gq.com/story/ashley-madison-affair-cheating-site

lol good to see short fiction getting a platform in a big mag like GQ

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/8/ashley-madison-users-are-getting-off-too-easy.html

lmao for sure man

waiting for this article to be written: "No females on Ashley Madison. Where women have affairs"

http://gizmodo.com/the-fembots-of-ashley-madison-1726670394?utm_content=buffer25590&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

On June 27, 2013, in an email thread with the subject line “how angels are made, ”Noel Biderman scolded some of his employees for failing to create a decent automated process for making angels:

I will tell you what the flaw is—simply listening to hourly employees complaints and then building an unmanageable system around their so called “creativity” block when all that needed to be done was to hire a group of language related individuals to manually build X number of profiles over the span of y month(s) and then have someone on the photo side add relevant and reliable images.

What has been created now is a bureaucratic convoluted nightmare of a process that not only takes longer, costs more money, involves more “management” and ultimately produces a worse product.

Over a year and half ago I approached the two of you to try to automate this system as I did not want to have a CSR level rep making mistakes that lead to transparency issues that they could not comprehend the impact of.

Our ability to productize this approach failed but this nightmare of a quagmire stops now. We just need to learn how to properly staff up for a project and then staff down ...

it was like the internet entrepreneur's fantasy turned into its opposite

lol so Biderman resigned AND his leaked emails revealed his own affairs and escort hookups.

http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2459/2693/original.gif

A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://consumerist.com/2016/02/02/ashley-madison-offering-profile-photo-masks-rendering-users-completely-unrecognizable-to-their-loved-ones/

A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://i.imgur.com/KzB4C0O.png

THE FUCK IS THAT.

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