Ashley Madison has been HACKED!! Users in danger of being exposed. UPDATE.

[FPLOON]

I thought Ashley madison was some sort of high school musical star. Haha!

That's Ashley Tisdale... and she was in Scary Movie 5...

OT: Huh... The only way I can feel bad for any of those accounts are those that made an agreement with their [married] spouse that involved being with another person and were using the site to achieve it a more faster rate... But, even then, that's just one side of the cheating coin and rarely is there that close to a parallel when the two that use the site met in person...

<color=fukcs>"What? Your spouse agreed to this beforehand just like mine did?"

<color=brush>"Yeah! What are the odds?"

Anyway, I don't see myself rooting for any side in particular, yet I will say that the hacking, itself, is the thing I'm not liking the most right now because of how it can go beyond the whole "Such-and-such is a cheater" reveal...

 

[Artina89]

While I do not particularly care for cheaters, or for a website that people can sign up for in order to aid them cheating, what one person does in their personal life and how they conduct themselves in their relationship is really nobody else's concern but the people involved in said relationships.

 

[OneCatch]

for husbands and wives to cheat on their parents

I don't think you should ever be in a position to cheat on your parents.

You forget Norfolk, that sort of thing is normal there.

My grandmother retired to Norfolk, and whenever we visited we used to have a game called 'Spot the good looking person'. It was never won.

Well... we thought we won it once, but then heard the person talking with an American accent and realised they were a tourist.
How they'd been persuaded that fucking Swaffham was the best use of their time in the UK I will never know.

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On topic; given that there's significant overlap between hacking collectives and 'freedom of all the internets' types, it seems a bit odd, possibly a tad hypocritical, to go after this site.

 

[Albino Boo]

My grandmother retired to Norfolk, and whenever we visited we used to have a game called 'Spot the good looking person'. It was never won.

Well... we thought we won it once, but then heard the person talking with an American accent and realised they were a tourist.
How they'd been persuaded that fucking Swaffham was the best use of their time in the UK I will never know.

There used to be 3 US airbases within 20 miles of Swaffham. The odds are they weren't there by choice.

 

[OneCatch]

My grandmother retired to Norfolk, and whenever we visited we used to have a game called 'Spot the good looking person'. It was never won.

Well... we thought we won it once, but then heard the person talking with an American accent and realised they were a tourist.
How they'd been persuaded that fucking Swaffham was the best use of their time in the UK I will never know.

There used to be 3 US airbases within 20 miles of Swaffham. The odds are they weren't there by choice.

ha! I suppose they might have escaped Lakebheath for the day or something.

 

[MeatMachine]

Snakes attacking a big snake that preys on very little snakes.

I don't respect anyone involved in this fiasco, so naturally, I don't really care what happens.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I think the hackers are in the wrong here. I think cheating on your partner is disgusting, but those are very private, personal details that by no means should be available to the general public.

But really - could we instead talk about how a dating site convinced almost 40 million people to pay them a shitload of money to do something they could do for free? They must have an excellent advertising strategy.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I think the hackers are in the wrong here. I think cheating on your partner is disgusting, but those are very private, personal details that by no means should be available to the general public.

But really - could we instead talk about how a dating site convinced almost 40 million people to pay them a shitload of money to do something they could do for free? They must have an excellent advertising strategy.

Same way that other dating sites do, I guess. Big business nowdays.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Okay. So I'm not a fan of the idea of cheating. But if we get down to it, the people instigating the bad behavior are doing so within the scope of their own personal lives, and that's their business.

But hacking a site, stealing personal information, blackmailing a company with said information, and possibly doxxing millions of people? I may not feel sorry for the victims here, but if I have to pick a side, it's certainly not going to be that of the person who feels they have the right to cause damage on that scale because they have a moral bug up their ass.

Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass God. Do not collect your self-righteous indignation.

 

[Padwolf]

So something bad happened to bad people? Yeah I have no sympathy here. I have no sympathy for cheaters. It's a pretty disgusting thing to do. I get it, it's their own business, hacking is bad blah blah blah but I just don't care what happens to any of them.

 

[MeatMachine]

Snakes attacking a big snake that preys on very little snakes.

In this statement, by 'snake' do you mean 'penis'? I'm asking for a friend who was reading over my shoulder.

No, I meant "snake" in the context of people behaving in ways that are vile, backstabbing, cowardly and exploitative.

Snakes (asshole hackers releasing private and financial info) attacking a big snake (a shady platform website for cheaters that blackmail users with cancellation fees) that preys on very little snakes (ill-intended cheaters who pay money to more easily fuel their deliberately dishonest, awful ideas of fun).

Although the penis analogy wouldn't be entirely unsuitable in this case, it wasn't what I was getting at.

 

[waj9876]

Doxxing millions of people because you are pissed at one website for simply existing? The financial and social consequences of this are just mind boggling. There are no words. If they find these guys they should hack off their hands like in the old days.

"Financial and social consequences?" You mean cheaters being revealed to be cheaters? You think it's bad for people to find out their spouse wants to cheat on them? That they should just never find out? If marriages fall apart because of this, chances are it's because of the people who cheated, not the people who revealed the cheating.

These aren't innocent people being picked on by the big bad hackers. These are cheaters about to be exposed, and a very slimy website being threatened. Illegal? Yeah. Are the hackers worse than the people connected to the website? Not in my eyes they're not.

Imagine if someone informed you your spouse was cheating on you. Who would you blame? Your spouse, or the person who told you? Would you hold that person responsible for your failing relationship?

 

[chadachada123]

I think the hackers are in the wrong here. I think cheating on your partner is disgusting, but those are very private, personal details that by no means should be available to the general public.

I disagree. It should very much be part of the public record if someone is a cheating whore.

I think that names, and only names, should be released. The unknowing spouses should have the right to know.

Edit: The hackers are vigilantes. They're doing the right thing, but doing so illegally. So, sure, charge and punish them, by all means. But the "victims" have absolutely zero sympathy from me.

 

[jklinders]

Doxxing millions of people because you are pissed at one website for simply existing? The financial and social consequences of this are just mind boggling. There are no words. If they find these guys they should hack off their hands like in the old days.

"Financial and social consequences?" You mean cheaters being revealed to be cheaters? You think it's bad for people to find out their spouse wants to cheat on them? That they should just never find out? If marriages fall apart because of this, chances are it's because of the people who cheated, not the people who revealed the cheating.

These aren't innocent people being picked on by the big bad hackers. These are cheaters about to be exposed, and a very slimy website being threatened. Illegal? Yeah. Are the hackers worse than the people connected to the website? Not in my eyes they're not.

Imagine if someone informed you your spouse was cheating on you. Who would you blame? Your spouse, or the person who told you? Would you hold that person responsible for your failing relationship?

I don't give two shits about the cheaters. Their families are a different matter. Neither you nor I know the full details of these marriages outside of the fact that one partner or the other is getting some on the side. Not everything is black and white in this situation and you should really consider that before you go off on someone who actually is thinking of this shit.

 

[MeatMachine]

Doxxing millions of people because you are pissed at one website for simply existing? The financial and social consequences of this are just mind boggling. There are no words. If they find these guys they should hack off their hands like in the old days.

"Financial and social consequences?" You mean cheaters being revealed to be cheaters? You think it's bad for people to find out their spouse wants to cheat on them? That they should just never find out? If marriages fall apart because of this, chances are it's because of the people who cheated, not the people who revealed the cheating.

These aren't innocent people being picked on by the big bad hackers. These are cheaters about to be exposed, and a very slimy website being threatened. Illegal? Yeah. Are the hackers worse than the people connected to the website? Not in my eyes they're not.

Imagine if someone informed you your spouse was cheating on you. Who would you blame? Your spouse, or the person who told you? Would you hold that person responsible for your failing relationship?

I don't give two shits about the cheaters. Their families are a different matter. Neither you nor I know the full details of these marriages outside of the fact that one partner or the other is getting some on the side. Not everything is black and white in this situation and you should really consider that before you go off on someone who actually is thinking of this shit.

Well, besides that, there's also the very real risk of the cheater's financial and identity information being leaked.

Again, I don't give two shits about their activities being exposed (serves them right for that), but having your credit card and personal information be stolen and exploited makes you the victim to a crime perpetrated by actual criminals, and in that regard, that's indefensible.

Kinda like how many people view prison rape - who cares if it's a crime, if the victims are presumably rotten people?

 

[Mad World]

I've known about this for days. One side of my brain hopes to see the information leaked and the registered users punished for their filthy transgressions, the other side of me doesn't want these peoples' more important information (the financial stuff) to be leaked and ripe for picking.

But in any case, I couldn't care less if the site stays up or goes down.

I agree, person with a cartoon pony as their avatar. I don't think that their credit card information should be leaked, but I do think that people who cheat should be made accountable. Can't help but admit that I am glad that this happened; it is a special kind of evil because it is done in secret and hurts the other person so much.

 

[LetalisK]

Hacking sites and spreading personal information around isn't the right thing to do.

Having said that, to hell with Ashley Madison. Also, their "cancellation fee" which removes all your details from the site records your payment details for the fee for deleting everything. So your name stays with them.

Interesting. You seem to know quite a bit about this. Is there something you'd like to tell us, Mr. Thal? If that is your real name!

OT: I hate hackers more than cheaters, so fuck 'em.

 

[jklinders]

Doxxing millions of people because you are pissed at one website for simply existing? The financial and social consequences of this are just mind boggling. There are no words. If they find these guys they should hack off their hands like in the old days.

"Financial and social consequences?" You mean cheaters being revealed to be cheaters? You think it's bad for people to find out their spouse wants to cheat on them? That they should just never find out? If marriages fall apart because of this, chances are it's because of the people who cheated, not the people who revealed the cheating.

These aren't innocent people being picked on by the big bad hackers. These are cheaters about to be exposed, and a very slimy website being threatened. Illegal? Yeah. Are the hackers worse than the people connected to the website? Not in my eyes they're not.

Imagine if someone informed you your spouse was cheating on you. Who would you blame? Your spouse, or the person who told you? Would you hold that person responsible for your failing relationship?

I don't give two shits about the cheaters. Their families are a different matter. Neither you nor I know the full details of these marriages outside of the fact that one partner or the other is getting some on the side. Not everything is black and white in this situation and you should really consider that before you go off on someone who actually is thinking of this shit.

Well, besides that, there's also the very real risk of the cheater's financial and identity information being leaked.

Again, I don't give two shits about their activities being exposed (serves them right for that), but having your credit card and personal information be stolen and exploited makes you the victim to a crime perpetrated by actual criminals, and in that regard, that's indefensible.

Kinda like how many people view prison rape - who cares if it's a crime, if the victims are presumably rotten people?

Right, I forgot all about the possibility of credit fraud in my response there. That was one of the financial consequences mentioned.. That has ramifications far beyond the "scumbag cheater." I think i was a little too caught up in just how profoundly shortsighted a response I had gotten.

 

[Aesir23]

This is definitely an interesting situation.

On one hand I don't like the idea of giving out people's personal information, especially if it's financial details since that has the potential to harm innocent family members.

However, I also have absolutely no sympathy for people who cheat on their partners unless the person they're cheating on is an abusive scumbag.