Posted on 08/24/2015 6:10:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Unconfirmed reports suggest that two people in Toronto have killed themselves over the Ashley Madison hack, local police said in a briefing providing details about the beginning of the leak.
“As of this morning, we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides that are associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customers’ profiles,” Toronto police service staff superintendent Bryce Evans said at a press conference on Monday.
Evans said the nature of the dating site for married people was “of no interest to us as the investigative teams”.
Security analyst Brian Krebs said last week he feared exactly that outcome. “There’s a very real chance that people are going to overreact. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw people taking their lives because of this, and obviously piling on with ridicule and trying to out people is not gonna help the situation,” Krebs, who first reported the hack, said on Wednesday.
The hack, in which some 33m profiles from the service were published online, has been the focus of extortion and phishing attempts. Among them are “hack checking” websites that compile the emails of the curious entered into them and then send malicious software to those emails.
Evans also said that a new scam, claiming to erase names from the Ashley Madison database in order to preserve users’ privacy, had sprung up in the few days since the hack.
“By clicking on these links, you are exposing your computer to adware, spyware, malware and viruses,” Evans said. “Multiple sites have now downloaded [the Ashley Madison user database] and are present. Nobody is going to be able to erase that information. There are confirmed cases of people trying to extort Ashley Madison clients.”
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It has been said here before and I’ll say it again.
No sympathy (except maybe for the families). You set out to purposefully violate the sacred binds of matrimony (well, sacred until recently) — you get what you deserve.
If it is people who were just living together, then it is downright funny.
This is a rare occasion where the loss of a life does not diminish us all. It is just — just.
Golly gee whiz, they must really care what people think about them or, people take so many drugs these days they never really deal with the real issues in their lives and can’t cope when things don’t go their way.
Treat someone like $hit, don’t stop treating people like $hit to feel better, just take a Xanax and feel better.
should not have cheated and how does one check the list anyway?
Hard to be sympathetic.
God wasn’t trying to control people when he made a commandment prohibiting adultery. He was trying to protect them.
I'm sympathetic. We're surrounded by perpetual children who do not connect actions with possible consequences. Maybe for the first time in their lives, there were consequences. They couldn't handle it.
If you find out let me know. I did a Yahoo! search and all that comes up is news articles about the hack.
I am reminded of a husband and wife I read about years ago.
He was having an affair. She knew and simply refused to acknowledge it. She still cared a lot about him and hoped it would end. Some people in the community knew. Most didn’t.
The wife was more or less protected by the idea she didn’t know. Those that knew pretty much accepted that she didn’t.
Then one really helpful village idiot found out about the affair. She decided the wife had to be informed at once. She blurted it out in public. The wife was instantly on the record as knowing. And then there was no choice.
The family had to split up. Young kid’s lives were marred forever.
You know folks, we don’t always know everything. What other people do is their business.
I don’t approve of situations like this, but then it’s not my business to make sure it’s fixed and culprits outed.
I don’t know the dynamics of the families involved. I don’t know the whys or what else is going on.
Yes, the offending mate is doing something we might think is despicable on first blush, but does that have to be the case?
What if the wife has a problem that prevents her fulfilling her martial sexual obligations? What if she and her husband work out an arrangement where he can obtain satisfaction elsewhere?
Is that any of our business?
Would outing the guy be in that wife’s best interest?
What’s going on in most of these cases is not this at all, but it is not any of our business.
I’ve got plenty of work to do on myself. I don’t generally have enough time to devote on perfecting the people doing something like this.
I’m guessing that only the tiniest minority of users actually found someone to cheat with. Sounds like the vast majority of their users are men and a sizable portion of them are single.
Still, if you’re married and trying to cheat it really isn’t any better.
I wonder if the people who killed themselves were cheaters or cheated on.
Truth ... is truth.
same here.
true
When hurting others, truth is never only the truth.
Your post would make sense in a world completely devoid of communicable diseases and pregnancies.
When you find that kind of world repeat your post and the people in it won’t have to correct you.
“Unconfirmed reports suggest “
Strong basis for a story.
” two unconfirmed reports of suicides”
Are there even any dead bodies?
Story is total garbage at this point.
We don’t have any business entering into other people’s privacy along these lines.
I do not approve of it, but we do not know what arrangements have been made between these men/women and their spouses.
The spouses at home may be doing the same thing by other means.
That is between them, not do gooder folks who have no business getting involved.
Do you feel that way about your own life?
Do you want to be kept in the dark?
I want the truth, always, every single time.
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