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Brockton Man Is First Ashley Madison User Exposed By Hackers
WBZ ^ | 7/21/15 | Jim Armstrong

Posted on 07/22/2015 4:42:13 PM PDT by markomalley

For a website like AshleyMadison.com that prides itself on secrecy and anonymity, a breach like this can be catastrophic. The site’s subscribers pay to have access to other married people looking to have affairs. They all, presumably, felt that their private information was safe.

“The quick answer is: not that safe,” says Dr. Michael Sulmeyer, the director of the Cyber Security Initiative at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center.

He says Ashley Madison’s clients know now the truth of the web: everything is hackable.

“Largely, you should not have an expectation of ultimate security and privacy,” Sulmeyer explains. “And operate with the understanding that things can go wrong despite all promises to the contrary.”

The group believed to be responsible for the hack claims to have stolen private information from all 37 million Ashley Madison users. On Tuesday the personal details of two subscribers leaked. One man is from Canada – the other from Brockton.

What was revealed is intensely personal. Among the data released about the Brockton client of Ashley Madison: His user ID is “Heavy73″; he listed himself as “married/attached”; he joined the site the day after Valentine’s Day, 2014; he likes “cuddling & hugging” and is into “discretion & secrecy”.

Sulmeyer says highly motivated hackers can be determined to get into sites like this, looking for intimate even embarrassing details.

On any such site, he says, users can and should change their passwords often.

“Even with that you should not believe that you have total privacy. And if you are really one who wants total privacy then you should not probably be getting on websites like this,” Sulmeyer says.

The hackers are demanding that the whole website be taken down or else they will release all the names and private data they have.


TOPICS: US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: affair; ashley; ashleymadison; divorcecometh; hack; hacked; madison; moralabsolutes; scum
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To: markomalley

37 Million Members? I can’t get my head around that Number.


41 posted on 07/22/2015 5:03:31 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If you can't beat them, try, try again.)
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To: tumblindice
Don't forget Ron Mexico...


42 posted on 07/22/2015 5:03:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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43 posted on 07/22/2015 5:05:06 PM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep freedom ALIVE!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Are you still worshiping the devil? /s


44 posted on 07/22/2015 5:05:27 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Crazieman

He’s here to wreck threads with bastardized Gospel. Nothing more.


45 posted on 07/22/2015 5:05:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kickass Conservative

I forgot. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to find out that BOTH Spouses in a Marriage are Members?


46 posted on 07/22/2015 5:05:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If you can't beat them, try, try again.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I like that reply.May a use it in the future for a few grammar and spel’en cops?


47 posted on 07/22/2015 5:05:44 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: markomalley

I thought it was a Tupper Ware party Honey!
Stupid is as stupid does...


48 posted on 07/22/2015 5:06:28 PM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep freedom ALIVE!)
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To: EEGator

Pffft!

He worships ME. Because Hitek will tell you. I am PURE evil.

And awesome ;)


49 posted on 07/22/2015 5:06:32 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: CGASMIA68

By all means. Lots of idiocy needs to be given the direct approach.


50 posted on 07/22/2015 5:07:45 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: markomalley

I smell the mother of all blackmail schemes in this. Hackers will make a killing off all the wealthy and influential people getting their names off the list before it’s finally released.


51 posted on 07/22/2015 5:09:35 PM PDT by Teflonic (tt)
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To: Norm Lenhart
It's a sweet combo. You're sort of like...


52 posted on 07/22/2015 5:10:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Teflonic

Blackmail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52a7QbLr4ys


53 posted on 07/22/2015 5:12:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Norm Lenhart

Badass and awesome, but your favorite pony is Fluttershy?

Dashie is disappointed.


54 posted on 07/22/2015 5:13:02 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: EEGator

Groovy....

;)

Dipstick is apparently at a loss for entertainment. It’s the third time in 2 days he’s gone after me with his HiTek Bible. I have reminded him a couple times he will only get mocked in return but he insists on making himself the center of attention.

Oh well. I should probably issue my standard apology to the thread because I’m sorry this liberal idiot follows me around destroying every thread I offend him on.

So, Sorry folks. I don’t bring him here. he just follows me.


55 posted on 07/22/2015 5:14:42 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: markomalley

This is not the best thread to make this case on, but it seems to me folks kind of wink and nod about these breaches.

If someone broke into my home and rifled my personal papers, and found out secret information, it wouldn’t be tolerated. I could take action against them. They would be guilty of theft.

What bothers me, is that these hackers are more or less thought of as modern day heroes of sorts.

Honestly, I wish there was an agency that could find these guys and put them in a room with no computers for 5 to 10 for this type of activity.

These guys put us all at risk. Breaching these systems is a security risk to individuals. In this instance those individuals are not people I care for. I don’t like their Lifestyle choices. They have made a confidential agreement, and the hackers should leave them alone.

We can’t smile when other people’s private information is revealed, then get up set when our own is.

Private information should remain private.


56 posted on 07/22/2015 5:15:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Crazieman

DONTYOUMAKEFUNOFFLUTTERSHY!!!
She’s a good conservative pony.

And ‘the stare’ is brutally awesome too ;)


57 posted on 07/22/2015 5:16:09 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
This guy's wife is available.

Take my wife please, I'm cool with it.

58 posted on 07/22/2015 5:16:56 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: markomalley
The site’s subscribers pay to have access to other married people looking to have affairs.

The moral fabric that holds society together is fastly unraveling...........

59 posted on 07/22/2015 5:18:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: DoughtyOne

We don’t get upset when criminals get busted. Why get upset when these people do? They were taking part in civil-actionable activities and morally repugnant activities the second they joined the site.

No, none of us are perfect. Then again we arent humiliating our families for sex either.


60 posted on 07/22/2015 5:19:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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