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Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes
heretic108 writes: According to KrebsOnSecurity, the infamous Ashley Madison affairs hookup website has been hacked by a group calling itself The Impact Team. This group is demanding the immediate and permanent shutdown of Ashley Madison, as well as similar sites Cougar Life and Established Man, owned by the same company: Avid Life Media. If the sites aren't shut down, the hackers are threatening to publicly release personal data for 37 million users. ALM has confirmed that a hack took place, and the hackers posted snippets of account data, as well as bank and salary information from the company itself.
when I signed for ashleymadison.com
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
Now I'll get my listing circulated without paying a renewal fee!
Perhaps so; but We, the Righteous, will hack them all and show our moral superiority!
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As a married man, the last thing I'd want in my life would be another woman. I can barely handle the one I have!
I tell my wife, if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure they guy is rich.
1) Set up a site for cheaters
2) Charge a subscription fee
3) Profit!
4) Accidentally leave some live shells open and ipkvm with a super weak password or easy vuln on a high port
5) Let 4 slip to cousin Jimmy at the family reunion if he will split the take
6) Confirm to the press the hack to place so black mail victims will take Jimmy seriously.
7) Profit! some more
See there is isn't even a ?? step and two Profit! steps!
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Let's see them try to roll out credit protection here. It better come with a box of chocolates, some roses, and a spa-treatment (or a 6-pack and tickets to your spouses favorite event) because that credit score WILL go in the toilet.
Mod me down, I shall become more off-topic than you could possibly imagine.
this is a prime target for a hacking/blackmail scheme
My first thought was that the entire point of the site was to BE a blackmail scheme.
it was a blackmail scheme but now those rotten hackers have ruined it for me!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
"shut down your predatory sites or we will forcibly liberate 37 million victims of either abusive, dead end, loveless, or empty relationships and leave them to reconcile the adult responsibilities of integrity, trust, and honesty while potentially fostering an atmosphere of open discourse on the nature of marriage, divorce, alimony, custody, and child support."
Good people go to bed earlier.
There ought to be some societal reward for all of us married folk who take our vows seriously, even if that reward comes in the form of a Nelson laugh at the cheaters' expense.
HA ha /Nelson
I'm much more reasonable. I tell my wife that if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure the guy plays Sonic & All-Stars Racing so I have someone to play split-screen with.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm much more reasonable. I tell my wife that if she's going to have an affair ... so I have someone to play split-screen with.
Is that some kind of euphemism?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I tell my wife, if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure they guy is rich.
I'd be disappointed if my wife screwed around behind my back. She knows I like to watch!
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
you marrieds get to keep your money
They get those cool minivans too.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I wonder if someone got laid off or feels screwed out of IPO shares?
I'll bet someone felt in their heart that the company promised one thing in good faith, then cheated on them.