Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Graham Cluley says he has been forwarded a blackmail letter, sent to a member of the controversial Ashley Madison adultery website. In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2,000 worth of bitcoin is paid within 10 days, the recipient's wife, friends and colleagues will be informed of his misdemeanors. In a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result. Cluley's advice to recipients is not to pay the blackmailers, but to tell the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service.

Comments

Re: You want to cheat on your wife?

[Anonymous Coward]

No one asked you to support it. This isn't about supporting or being against adulterous behaviors, but rather how willing we are as a society to protect privacy. Unless a crime was committed they have as much right as you to not be threatened.

Amature Night

[JBMcB]

You don't send blackmail letters IN THE MAIL.

This is now a federal crime, and the post office inspectors office, and probably the FBI, gets involved. Since this is in the news, they will probably be very interested in this case, as well.

Re: You want to cheat on your wife?

[houghi]

I would like the state to bud out what I do with my sexlife and if I cheat or not. If my wife has an issue, she can sue and get all the monies, but is should NOT be a default.

Next the state will decide who I can and can not merry and how often I MUST have sex with said person.

Adultery happens, get over it. If you don't do it, that is great. If your SO does not do it either, even better. But do not say what I should or should not do, even though I am against cheating on a personal level.