Posted on 08/19/2015 6:01:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A married politician was horrified to find her details were on a list of email addresses leaked after the hacking of infidelity website Ashley Madison. \ Michelle Thomson, the SNP MP for Edinburgh West, said her identity had been ‘harvested’ as part of a smear campaign against her.
The mother-of-two said: ‘Along with potentially millions of others, an out-of-use email address seems to have been harvested by hackers’.
Today hackers, working under the name Impact Team, published the names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and sexual fantasies of the social networking site’s 37 million members. Around 2.1 million of those are in the UK.
Among those named in the leak were bankers, civil servants, UN peacekeepers, firefighter and Vatican employees.
The Impact Team hackers said they had outed the users as they were ‘cheating dirtbags’.
Of the attack, Mrs Thompson said: ‘I look forward to finding out more about what has actually happened. However, having a personal email address linked to an account doesn’t mean that person is really a user of Ashley Madison’.
Another British civil servant, who did not wish to be named, told MailOnline today that she was ‘heartbroken’ after being named as an Ashley Madison user.
The married woman also said she was the victim of a ‘malicious enemy’.
Anyone using the Ashley Madison website can input any email address as the site does not require verification.
If its like regular dating sites, periodic e-mails will come through (”You’ve been matched with user NNNNNNNNN”, or “check out the new members”; stuff like that). In other words, you would know something suspicious was going on if “you” never signed up for the site; free or otherwise.
I thought my old Little League coach died.
Ok, question. I have noticed that my spam box is full of Ashley madison emails. I have never opened any of them to even check why they have my email, as I’m always afraid some virus will pop up. It’s on my old yahoo email account. I just assumed it was just that, junk mail they send out. I have never been on that site (sure, likely story, I know), but I’ve also never inquired about penile enhancements either (since I don’t have one) and I get that junk mail too. I KNOW they don’t have my credit card info, because I would definitely have noticed that. So... I can actually believe someone who says they dont know how their email got there, however if there is a credit card linked, that’s a whole different thing.
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