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.

Comments

Saudi Arabia

[frovingslosh]

OK, so in Saudi Arabia homosexuality is illegal and may be punished with death, but there are negative things about the country too.

Perhaps if you live in such a country you shouldn't go on a computer network and post information that would lead back to you and get you killed. Sounds like some people earned themselves Darwin Awards.

OK, just kidding, I know we should be more compassionate towards the homosexuals until there is a cure for their sickness,

Re:When you define anything as "cheating"...

[Anonymous Coward]

(Posting as AC, even though I've never gone near the site,

Um, you might want to look again...

Puritans are scum

[Lumpy]

100% of the worlds pain and misery come from these people who find glee in forcing their beliefs on others.

Lets all attack the victim of the hack.

[gurps_npc]

Yes, blame the victim because they violated our society's moral code, rather than an actual law.

Look, if you cheat on your wife, that's NOT OUR BUSINESS.

You don't get the right to vilify and laugh and insult someone because they betrayed someone else.

Worst of all, I have never seen a case where someone cheated on a virtuous spouse. Every single case of cheating I have ever heard of or seen among my friends was one shallow shmuck marrying a clear and obvious player and then getting upset that the player played.

My sister married her law professor - after he divorced his 2nd wife (yes, she slept with him before he was divorced). Surprise surprise, he cheated on her also. What happened to her is pretty much exactly like what happens most of the time.