http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9002185/ashley-madison-hacked-data-37-million-users

Heard so many great things about AM over the years too  LOL

I just sent the perps some anal fissure cream as a concession...I hope that suffices.

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Who do they think they are going to blackmail?

More than half the peeps there have SOs. Why are simple matters so hard for you to grasp?

Steph

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We may be illegal, but we are a lot less vulnerable to the kind of privacy attacks that AM users are now undergoing.

I see a spike in divorce lawyer's business on the horizon.

The odd thing is that they hackers claim that they want to punish AM for not having good security, but it's the AM clients who are going to pay the price one way or the other

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Less vulnerable to hacking?  Seriously?

What moron puts his/her "real" info on any of those (these) sites?  Out of 37M members...I hope that there are at least 36M John Smith's.

AM members have to take responsibility for themselves.  Just like anyone on this site..or any "adult" site.

And that "spike" in divorce attorney's business is more likely due to the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage. LOL

Can you imagine how many horny housewives who've been faithful to cheating husbands are going to be out there looking for "revenge sex" once the list is published?

Like, women can't be predators too?! (not that I think the guys on these sites are predators, but the hackers seem to.)

But somehow I doubt that.

I suspect most of those PMs are with this person overseas.

Just need to get those John Smiths to pony up for membership  LOL

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I thought not!

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that this was inevitable.

It is a concern for P411 RS, and DT however.

At least TER doesn't have our real info.  (At least let's hope so.

“The Impact Team” is threatening to expose all customer records unless Avid Life Media takes AshleyMadison and Established Men offline “permanently in all forms.” - WaPo

...by charging $20 for a full delete of one's profile, while not actually doing anything and just pocketing the money. Maybe P411, et al are safe by operating with integrity?

Their SO having a AM account, seriously?

 

I don't belong to AM or AFF, but the Impact team can go piss up a rope as far as I'm concerned. In the article it exlplains that the Impact team claimed a moral stance. So now computer hacking is of high morals??? What the fuck is that??? So I wonder if their high morals advocate wives denying their husbands sex for untold lengths of time, and if he cheats then "bam, give me half". These moral assholes are pond scum and can go fuck themselves.  

And fuck marriage! What a bullshit deal this is for a man

To ascribe altruistic motives to hackers, i.e. someone breaking state and federal law, for the mere purpose of outing someone, is asinine.

What if the hacker wants to hack p411 because they believe p4p is evil? That would be doing the "righteous thing", in their mind, by going after p411 and its competition.

Then everyone can laugh at the hackers.

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1a. Give in to blackmailers, take down your businesses (AM, EM), protect your once-paying customers.  Hope that the blackmailers don't release info.  "Took one for the team."  End of business, end of income, end of it all.

1b.  As above, but re-open a new service ... won't work because blackmailers still have the old info hanging over your head.  

2a. Do not give in to blackmailers, some or all info is released, and now your business is destroyed anyway because you failed to protect your customers with proper security in the first place and now you show complete disregard for their privacy by telling the blackmailers, "Go ahead.  We don't care."  Current customers insist on a full deletion of info.  No new customers since you don't give a rat's ass about the customer.  

2b. Does anyone see AM coming across as a hero because they don't give in to blackmailers?  But what if all the info goes public?  Are they still heroic or is that the end of their business?

3. "Added noise" scenario.  Claim that you actually have 137 million names and addresses but the hackers only got 37 million.  Add that many of those names were in there only in response to some clever ad: "Check this out.  Needs a CC # for proof of age.  You will not be charged."  and that the hackers are only exposing people who weren't even active members of AM just stupid "signed in once and didn't even know what it was" customers.

What other ideas can go into this?

 
And to those who asked: I would worry about P411, RS, et al., too.  Maybe we should go back to the days of 24/7 call centers before easy "secure" internet access.  Keep the servers OFF LINE so only the call center live bodies can talk to computers

but then again, I am not cheating on anybody. If I were, I'd be scared shitless about the prospect of having my name plastered all over the internet, despite all the reassurances about how "secure" my info is.

That London-based IPO they had planned for 200 mil will probably go *poof*  You can pick the company up for pennies on the dollar.

5 or 6 years ago when I used AM, I used a psuedonym and a throwaway identity and a single friend's email address and paid with a money order with a fake address I am not too worried about being "outed" on there.

Now P411, THAT I worry about due to using my real life driver's license info, work info, etc.  They SAY they destroy the info after confirming, but do they REALLY?  

I hope so.

My friend is already there...and on top of it.

He does like sushi as well.

Throw in the "hooker fantasy" that most of them have  ... I'm in.

I agree. And I think marriage is a bullshit deal for everyone involved.

TER could be hacked probably just as easily.  Just hasn't been, yet.

My company's IT dept. sent out a memo just now cautioning users not to open any email that purports to deal with the AM debacle as scammers will use this in an attempt to hack your computer with Trojans (not the good kind), etc.

All TER folks should be aware of this.

The scam  emails could be from familiar names if your address book got hacked, and they will have subject lines like:  Hey, I see your name on the AM list, or Important news for people who are on the AM site, etc.

Don't help make a bad situation worse

Does P411 require a real full name, etc.? Date-Check just required a real first name, city, and last four digits of the driver's license. I paid for a lifetime membership with a money order with my id/handle.