The Ashley Madison Hack...

Lets see some extortion!

Extortion begins for Ashley Madison hack victims

Hello,

Unfortunately, your data was leaked in the recent hacking of Ashley Madison and I now have your information.

If you would like to prevent me from finding and sharing this information with your significant other send exactly 1.0000001 Bitcoins (approx. value $225 USD) to the following address:

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Sending the wrong amount means I won’t know it’s you who paid.

You have 7 days from receipt of this email to send the BTC [bitcoins]. If you need help locating a place to purchase BTC, you can start here…..
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Wired does a great job on this.

Ashley Madison Hack Exposes (Wait for It) a Lousy Business

And that’s before you consider reports that Ashley Madison created fake profiles of young women to encourage people to join. A former employee filed a lawsuit against the company claiming damages for wrist injuries caused while creating “1,000 fake female” profiles for the site’s launch in Brazil. (The suit ultimately was dismissed.) Some users also have claimed they were chatting with women who, they say, turned out to be fake.
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If a lot of women on the site were fake, on the other hand, especially because men had to buy credits to message women, that could begin looking more suspicious, says Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University. In fact, federal regulators reached a settlement with a British dating company last year agreeing that it could not use fake profiles to trick users into upgrading to paid memberships.
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Can we talk about the site itself, that was a morally bankrupt idea to begin with, and then exploited further with outright fraud taking extra money to fully erase records, then not doing it? Who would do such a thing?
Noel Biderman.
Have I cheated on my wife? Not yet... meet the founder of Ashley
“I want to live a broader legacy than just a successful website.”...
“I’ve got the big data. I’m like the Google of cheating. 25,000 a day sign up to my service. I can tell you the ages, the cities, the gender, the ethnicities...”
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I suspect more men than he is prepared to admit see marriage as a respite from the hyper-competitive sexual marketplace, as evidenced in Rolling Stones lyrics and GQ articles and YouPorn videos and the number of pop-up adverts for penis extension that appear on his very own personal website.

A confused look crosses his face when I mention this. “No, there’s no ads on there.” I assure him that when I Googled his name, the first thing that came up was a load of adverts for penis extensions. Doesn’t that say something about the sort of business he’s running?

He pulls out his iBook and begins frantically prodding around. “What? What? What? Oh my God, where are these coming from?” he says as he clicks into his site. “What does this say, penis extension?” After five minutes of sending frantic emails he concludes that his site has been hacked and apologises.
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Liar.
11 titillating minutes with Ashley Madison renders me impressed
And you use it on Ashley Madison, the product is uniquely designed for being a secret. It’s all about discretion and anonymity. … You don’t just delete your profile when you’re finished, we’ll have to recall every message you’ve ever sent, every photo you’ve … it’ll never even appear there. The most successful affair is being never discovered, and the kids will much rather have their both parents together even if one is unfaithful than have them break up.
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What do you expect from this type of person? Does someone really expect a guy that peddles immorality to be moral himself? Keep kidding yourself.
 
Idiots and liars, not worth our attention. Were you cheated on before OPants?
 
LelandJ said:
Idiots and liars, not worth our attention. Were you cheated on before OPants?
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Not that I'm aware of. I just find this business offensive the same way I do the soda industry. I'm glad they were hacked, if it's not obvious.
 
1. Some chick I know admitted to signing up for the site, despite being single, "to see how it worked"
2. WTF with their "30 day guarantee" - I assume it's like the diet ones where they just assume everyone will be too ashamed to admit that they still lost no weight (or couldn't get laid) and suck up the loss.
 
Russell Street said:
1. Some chick I know admitted to signing up for the site, despite being single, "to see how it worked"
2. WTF with their "30 day guarantee" - I assume it's like the diet ones where they just assume everyone will be too ashamed to admit that they still lost no weight (or couldn't get laid) and suck up the loss.
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Since they hacked all the company emails, you'll start to see the level of the scam.

Interesting:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ashley-madison-hackers-speak-out-nobody-was-watching
 
I'm not sure why anyone would take a site like this seriously.

Obviously its a legal scam.

My starting assumptions before I'd heard of it.

It will be overwhelmingly populated by men who can't interact with women. It will also be populated with fake female profiles. It will employ workers (male and female) to write profiles and interact with customers. Interacting with customers will be designed to get them to pay more.

It will also be used extensively by escort agencies and single operator medium priced call girls. It will auto charge your credit cards.

The so called hack is very suspect.

A casual look at data from Australia that I know shows some of the biggest users to be small towns where the alleged number signed up is 3/4 of the total population of 30 people. In a town where 12 or more of them are over 65. Doesn't make sense from the initial sniff test.
And even if it was true how is it possible that 20 out of 30 people in a small Australian town are all willing to have an affair yet they have to go online to a predominately USA site to find each other.

Gimme a break.

In addition it appears that the majority of the emails used in Australia are allegedly from Public Servants using their real name and work address!!

C'mon.

This is confected moral panic of the first order.
 
people is small towns would need the service most and horny old men are most in need of an outlet. Your argument makes no sense.
 
Public servants are a morally upstanding lot too.

I would tend to agree with Allen Smithee that in small villages you can't open up backpages to shag someone.

I think some of the people who pay for this site are looking for some kind of thrill - similar to swingers clubs, s&m, etc. Otherwise, they'd use Tinder.
 
Oh - I always remember this statistic about East Germany and how half the population signed up to be informants for the Stasi.
 
Actually the local news is, of course, revealing that upper municipal employees used their work e-mail and physical addresses, and work computers.
I suspect it's much less dicey to do that than to use the personal info that the wife can find. If work finds out, it's a black mark. If the wife finds out, it's a possible game-ender.
Let's say some lawyers start the class action suits, and mail out notices. Would one rather that it arrive at work or home?
 
Fwiffo Fwiffo , can't really follow your logic here. Small villages to the Stasi? These are rather broad leaps.

Anyway, people that use a service like AM are stupid for the reasons exposed by the hackers and second have a weak moral compass. Try finding a thrill that doesn't hurt others.
 
Russell Street said:
Actually the local news is, of course, revealing that upper municipal employees used their work e-mail and physical addresses, and work computers.
I suspect it's much less dicey to do that than to use the personal info that the wife can find. If work finds out, it's a black mark. If the wife finds out, it's a possible game-ender.
Let's say some lawyers start the class action suits, and mail out notices. Would one rather that it arrive at work or home?
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Still too general, lets see some names.
 
The point is that the reason public service email addresses and real names shown by "hackers" are published is that they were easily scraped from elsewhere on the Web. Not they were from ashley madison n site.
 
OfficePants said:
Fwiffo Fwiffo , can't really follow your logic here. Small villages to the Stasi? These are rather broad leaps.
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I was going to go for McCarthyism but I don't remember the statistics on that. People sign up to things - regardless of whether it's right, or wrong. A herd of people sign up to a lot of stupid things (like queuing for a free things)

Okay I'm going to exit this thread. I didn't know we were a bunch of God-fearing monogamists who cherish the institution between a man and woman here.

In the context of a lot of sick evil things you can do for sex, this is minor.
 
Fwiffo said:
I was going to go for McCarthyism but I don't remember the statistics on that. People sign up to things - regardless of whether it's right, or wrong. A herd of people sign up to a lot of stupid things (like queuing for a free things)

Okay I'm going to exit this thread. I didn't know we were a bunch of God-fearing monogamists who cherish the institution between a man and woman here.

In the context of a lot of sick evil things you can do for sex, this is minor.
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If you were in the herd and were dumb enough to sign up for an account, you deserve the outcome from it, same as being in the crowd during a riot, you might "I dint do nuffin man" but you still got pepper sprayed.

The "context" argument is hollow and justifies a lot of evil deeds. I'm not god fearing, though people usually reap what they sow.
 
I would assume that nobody that's ever looked at the AM site is happy.
From what I've heard, the actual website is still making zero mention of the entire leak. Total head in sand and hope the customers don't pay attention to the news.

I also was curious about the fxh fxh conspiracy theory that this was not an inside job but a snow job. As the local news cited a municipal police officer's work e-mail address that was found. I was unable to find any police-related e-mail addresses online. Similarly, the news is that around 200 work e-mails of the state university's employees were found on the checker. My experience, from demanding the firing of Kevin Allred, is that they list non-personal department e-mail addresses online. It's not the 90s, people are aware of bots fishing for published addresses online.
 
fxh said:
It will be overwhelmingly populated by men who can't interact with women. It will also be populated with fake female profiles. It will employ workers (male and female) to write profiles and interact with customers. Interacting with customers will be designed to get them to pay more.

It will also be used extensively by escort agencies and single operator medium priced call girls. It will auto charge your credit cards.
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I think you've just described every online dating site in existence.
 
Rambo said:
Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
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Great read; it's a nice reminder that human frailty is what made this and other such sites successful. However, I don't like the tone of the article's author which seems to suggest that the AM hack victims are blameless.

It seems even the author of the email accepts and understands her choice was a faulty one. I do agree that the hack victims do not deserve scorn, the public nature of their activity on the site it punishment enough.
 
tosq said:
Great read; it's a nice reminder that human frailty is what made this and other such sites successful. However, I don't like the tone of the article's author which seems to suggest that the AM hack victims are blameless.

It seems even the author of the email accepts and understands her choice was a faulty one. I do agree that the hack victims do not deserve scorn, the public nature of their activity on the site it punishment enough.
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That's been my point all along. You reap what you sow, she's not a victim. Scorn should come from spouses, from us just some good old humiliation is the ticket.
 
I was just reminded today that aside from a small area of somewhere in the desert in Shitsville USA that all forms of sex work in USA are illegal!!
 
It's worse than it seems.

The Fembots of Ashley Madison

Of the 5 million women "profiles", only 12,000 were actually active.

In the data dump of Ashley Madison’s internal emails, I found ample evidence that the company was actively paying people to create fake profiles. Sometimes they outsourced to companies who build fake profiles, like the ones Caitlin Dewey wrote about this week in the Washington Post. But many appear to have been generated by people working for Ashley Madison. The company even had a shorthand for these fake profiles—“angels.” Perhaps this is a tip of the hat to Victoria’s Secret models, also known as angels.

Ashley Madison created their angels all over the world, and the dump contains dozens of emails where Avid Life Media management arranged to generate more. Here you can see a July 4, 2013 email from Avid Life Media’s director of internal operations, Nora Abtan, to CEO Noel Biderman and other managers, with the subject “summary angels status”:
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