AshleyMadison.com Hacked.

[TheCat]

AshleyMadison—tagline "Life Is Short. Have An Affair"—is an online site that facilitates cheating among its 37 million users. It's a service founded on confidentiality and privacy, which now seems to have all of its data in the hands of hackers. They're demanding the company take down the site, or they're going to out a lot of adulterers.

The hackers, going by the name "The Impact Team," posted a small sample of sensitive data (since taken offline) stolen from Avid Life Media, the company that owns AshleyMadison, along with other hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men. The data was accompanied by a statement, demanding the takedown of AshleyMadison and Established Men. If that doesn't happen, the hackers are threatening to leak the full details—names, addresses, sexual fantasies—of AshleyMadison's 37 million users.

Speaking to security blog KrebsOnSecurity, ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, condemned the "criminal act," and said the company was working hard to have the data taken down.

Hackers Threaten to Expose 37 Million Cheating AshleyMadison Users

Impact Team message, via KrebsOnSecurity

The Impact Team's beef with Avid seems to lie with the Full Delete feature offered by AshleyMadison—a $19 service that allows users of the site to erase their profile, and all accompanying information. According to The Impact Team, that service is a lie—it claims that although profile information is removed, credit card details, including real name and billing address—remain online.

That frames the hackers as the good guys, campaigning against a lying company; of course, a trove of personal information, including credit card details, can be worth serious money to the right people.

It goes without saying that this is about the worst data leak imaginable—not only does it have the usual problems of identity fraud, but if the full list of AshleyMadison's users hits the internet, that's a lot of adulterers outed.

http://gizmodo.com/hackers-threaten-to-expose-40-million-cheating-ashleyma-1718965334

[thelakelander]

37 million people are currently wetting their pants right now!

[spuwho]

This wont mean much unless some Congressman or Government official turns up on the list. Then all efforts by law enforcement will be engaged to hush the hackers.

It would be funny if the info dribbles out over time, but the Feds will catch em before that happens. Look for the one time dump instead.

[TheCat]

37 million people are currently wetting their pants right now!

And, another 37 million are thinking "i'm so happy I didn't press submit!"

[spuwho]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

[Adam White]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

[spuwho]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

I figured someone might ask. I used to work with a bunch of attorneys, many in family law. Some people go to great lengths to keep their private life, well....private, until they are caught.

Then the tools to obscure are numerous once revealed.

[Adam White]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

I figured someone might ask. I used to work with a bunch of attorneys, many in family law. Some people go to great lengths to keep their private life, well....private, until they are caught.

Then the tools to obscure are numerous once revealed.

Interesting. It makes sense, really. I bet you have a lot of fascinating stories.

[ProjectMaximus]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

I figured someone might ask. I used to work with a bunch of attorneys, many in family law. Some people go to great lengths to keep their private life, well....private, until they are caught.

Then the tools to obscure are numerous once revealed.

And I bet when spuwho shows up in the leak you'll tell us it was for research purposes...

[Adam White]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

I figured someone might ask. I used to work with a bunch of attorneys, many in family law. Some people go to great lengths to keep their private life, well....private, until they are caught.

Then the tools to obscure are numerous once revealed.

And I bet when spuwho shows up in the leak you'll tell us it was for research purposes...

Ah yes - the Pete Townshend defence!

[spuwho]

Most serial adulterers use fake names with VISA gift cards to pay. I would reason the worse "offenders" have little to fear.

Do they? I won't ask how you know that 

I figured someone might ask. I used to work with a bunch of attorneys, many in family law. Some people go to great lengths to keep their private life, well....private, until they are caught.

Then the tools to obscure are numerous once revealed.

And I bet when spuwho shows up in the leak you'll tell us it was for research purposes...

LOL. Nope I can easily say I am not registered on the site, either by name real or fictitious.

[thelakelander]

Say it ain't so....

Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account

In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C. which seeks "to champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society." During that time, he also maintained a paid account on Ashley Madison, a web site created for the express purpose of cheating on your spouse.

In May 2015, Duggar was forced to resign after In Touch Weekly reported that he had molested five young girls (four of whom were his own sisters) beginning in 2002. When the accusations became public, the family went into crisis mode, insisting that Josh had reformed and that the media covering the claims was intent on "exploiting women."

Josh himself took to his family's Facebook page to absolve himself of his past indiscretions and assure the world he was back on a righteous path. And his wife, for her part, certainly seemed to believe it.

But data released online in the wake of the hack on Ashley Madison's servers certainly seems to show otherwise. Someone using a credit card belonging to a Joshua J. Duggar, with a billing address that matches the home in Fayetteville, Arkansas owned by his grandmother Mary—a home that was consistently shown on their now-cancelled TV show, and in which Anna Duggar gave birth to her first child—paid a total of $986.76 for two different monthly Ashley Madison subscriptions from February of 2013 until May of 2015.

Full article: http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091

[Tacachale]

In news that surprises no one...

[spuwho]

Josh Duggar was easy pickings. Wait until they find someone with a lot more to lose.

[Gunnar]

The interesting thing is that  the CougarLife website owned by the same group was not hacked, or at least the client data was not leaked.