Posted on 08/20/2015 6:54:42 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
TORONTO (Reuters) - Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet.
Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about Internet security and data protection.
The hacker attack has been a big blow to Toronto-based assignation website firm Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison and has indefinitely postponed the adultery site's IPO plans. But many professions stand to benefit from the unfolding saga, from lawyers to therapists to cyber security firms.
Prominent divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said the release is the best thing to happen to his profession since the seventh Commandment forbade adultery in the Bible.
"I've never had anything like this before," he said.
The data dump began to make good on the hackers' threat last month to leak nude photos, sexual fantasies, real names and credit card information for as many as 37 million customers worldwide of Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair."
The public embarrassment and emotional toll is likely to be enormous on unsuspecting people whose extra-marital affairs may have been exposed on the web or even whose emails were used without their knowledge to sign up for the site
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ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????? Since when should give a rats #$%^ about people being exposed for the lying trash they are?
Hey! Didn't Raoul Felder used to be a FReeper? Or perhaps still is?
Some believe that if you know of a crime and do nothing you are as guilty as the perpetrator.
Somebody should ping JohnSemmens. He could re-post this article verbatim and label it “semi-satire”.
True, but look how you bought into the premise of the headline: it isn’t that “Ashley Madison data dump threatens marriages,” it’s INFIDELITY threatens marriages and AM’s data dump only reveals it.
For the most part, I agree. However, I wonder how many perpetrators of identity theft are also cheating on spouses, using a stolen identity?
It is “sure to rattle” some users who thought they could cheat on spouses with impunity. Already, I see stories from some prominent customers who are concocting wild stories about how somebody hacked their email. Deeper and deeper....
Dr. Raoul I think.
If you mean Dr Raoul, he’s gonna be hard to reach for an interview.
Local radio (DC area) was listing off the numbers of government accounts used by department. Evidently 25 email accounts from Whitehouse.gov addresses. You can’t make this stuff up.
That sounds rather ominous.
Once upon a time, the left said, “What happens in the bedroom between two consenting adults is nobody’s business. It’s only sex”, (when it concerned Bill Clinton). Yet now, they’re going off on Josh Duggar for doing the same questionable thing for which they staunchly defended Clinton. But, Duggar is a conservative.
Alinsky tactic (or was it Marx?), “Accuse others of what you are doing”.
Me? I couldn’t care less what people do. What concerns me in this case is the breach of credit card info. If it can happen to this site, it can happen to ANY site.
Uh, I don’t think the hackers and “data dump” threatened the marriages and reputations. I think it was the affairs themselves hat threatened the marriages and reputations.
It is fair to point out that Identity theft can be used for Ashley Madison too . . . not that it will be a large number or percentage of the data dump but some innocent people will be caught up in this.
Since prominent political and social “leaders” might be exposed—which might negatively impact advancing the agenda—that’s why.
Died two years ago
Bummer. He was a great FReeper. Thanks for the assist.
Whats worse, he’s been voting Democrat ever since.
Wow! A little respect for the dearly departed?
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