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Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims
wired_parrot writes: Toronto police are reporting that 2 unconfirmed suicides have been linked to the data breach. This follows pleas from other users of the site for the hackers to not release the data before it was exposed- an anonymous gay Reddit user from Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is illegal, pleaded for the data to be kept private: "I am about to be killed, tortured, or exiled," he wrote. "And I did nothing." And when The Intercept published a piece condemning the puritanical glee over the data dump, one user who commented on the article said she's been "a long term member" of the site because her spouse's medical condition has affected their intimate life. Her spouse knows she's engaged with other Ashley Madison members, she says, but now fears she will likely lose friends and have to find a new job now that her association with the site is out there.
Ashley Madison has now offered a $380,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hackers who leaked the data. Security researcher Troy Hunt has also posted about the kind of emails he's received from users after the data leak.
It is, it's a 500k CAD reward, which translates to ~380k USD.
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Don't lust after other women, don't think about cheating, don't put yourself in the position where you might, don't neglect your marriage to the point where you feel you need to, and chances are pretty good that you won't.
When christ said to mind the log in your own eye, before looking at the mote in others, clearly you were not paying attention.
But this isn't a bank vault. This was someone hiding the cash in a box under the bushes and claiming it was safe.
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Actually he didn't. When he was in the US he used the site and now he is back in Saudi Arabia where he doesn't use the site. But he is afraid that what he did in the US will be exposed and will be punished for it in Saudi Arabia.
And why should it? For the sake of argument do you think the government should tell you that you MUST install a home security system, have dead bolts on every exterior door, require exterior doors be steel or solid wood, limit the side of windows to no more than 1" by 1" or require bars?
If you're in business and promising your customers that you're keeping their stuff secure, well, yeah, there should be legal penalties for not meeting some standards of due diligence (admittedly, there's quite a bit of wiggle room as to where those standards should be set).
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
You can't hold someone responsible for being hacked, unless they've demonstrated that they didn't even try to avoid it.
Sure you can, this is why we have insurance. If I put stuff in a storage unit and it gets broken into, it's the storage unit's fault. Period. They will have to pay me. It matters not if they tried to keep out the burglars or not. They will get paid by their insurance company but it is most certainly their fault that my stuff got stolen.
alienation of affection, which is punishable with jail time.
Bullshit. Even in NC, alienation of affection is a civil matter.
Affairs are probably illegal in most states in the U.S. If not all.
Also bullshit. Just a few states still have these laws on the books.
Furthermore, such laws are plainly totalitarian, they misplace responsibility, they view a marriage as little more than a property deed, and they elevate particular religions to sources of law. No small government conservative, nor any other supporter of a free society, could possibly support such a law. The only reason they haven't been declared unconstitutional is that no relevant case has yet reached the Supreme Court.
One NC attorney, quoted in the Wiki, says it quite well:
One North Carolina divorce attorney has written: "Adultery is not uncommon, but an alienation-of-affection case just polarizes everyone and devastates everything in its path including the children and both spouses....The world has changed. Women are no longer viewed as property. Alienation-of-affection is something that dates way, way back, and if there was ever a law that needed to be removed, this is it."
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If you store other peoples' shit in your home for money, damn right you are responsible for its security. Nobody cares if your own stuff gets stolen.
My wife has a yarn store and import/distribution business for fancy schmancy yarns. We have customer data, not by choice, customers demand it for their convenience. I happen to be a security/crypto type engineer. So we worked out what the plan was based on the notion that a yarn store is helpless in the face of electronic warfare.
1) Outsource anything touching PCI-DSS. The payment card machine doesn't attach to the computer. The online payments are through a service that handles the card data on their servers while appearing to be on our web site and PCI-DSS compliance is part of their service. PCI-DSS sucks (I've read the specs - It's not pretty). But it's what we have. So pay someone else to hold the responsibility who on the surface may be better positioned that a yarn store to handle such data.
2) Don't keep customer credit card data on a computer. Use other means.
In general, there's nothing anyone can do who isn't deeply involved in computer security and cryptography, which on average is everyone. Those few who are involved in the intersection of retail and computer security are disempowered by the payment card companies who dictate terms, avoid liability and push absolutely useless security standards on the rest of us.
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