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

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?

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

Plus 1

Less vulnerable to hacking?  Seriously?

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 thought not!

that this was inevitable.

“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.  

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

Then everyone can laugh at the hackers.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.