Ashley Madison hack threatens to expose millions of users

ACraigL shared a link said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 2:21pm ET

Kind of old news, now, but didn't see anyone post it here.

Ashley Madison, the dating website that purports to connect people looking for an affair, has been the victim of a hack that has exposed the personal data of its 37 million users.

37,000,000 users? Seriously!?!

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/20/ashley-madison-hack/

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ACraigL said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 2:22pm ET:

@starblind, I thought you looked familiar.

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darksaber99999 said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 2:33pm ET:

Yes, but how many of those are bots or private investigators?

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Starblind said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 2:49pm ET:

37,000,000 users

Wow, and I thought it was just ad hype when that banner ad said there were tons of desperate horny people in my area. It was all true!

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- @Starblind To be fair, that's a measure of weight, not quantity.
  
  ACraigL said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 3:52pm ET
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- @Starblind We're going to have to have a talk about your workplace browsing habits.
  
  NigelF said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 5:46pm ET
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brhfl said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 2:57pm ET:

Best response from ordinarily very straight-faced security blogger Graham Cluley:

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- @brhfl At first glance, I thought that was your order number from them: straight-faced-security.
  
  cengland0 said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 4:33am ET
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dashcloud said Tue, Jul 21st 2015 at 5:34pm ET:

Bad news folks- anyone with your email address could already tell if you were a member:
Your affairs were never discrete

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- @dashcloud I would hope that anyone having multiple affairs would keep them discrete and discreet. I would also hope that people know the difference between the two, but alas, for most it isn't so.
  
  PurplePawprints said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 1:36am ET
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- @PurplePawprints mathematicians do it discretely and continuously
  
  nadroj said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 1:41am ET
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somf69 said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:13am ET:

This will never happen at www.farmersonly.com

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communist said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:14am ET:

37,000,000

thats because creating an account was free, deleting it cost $20 but the name and info still stayed on the servers(and got hacked)

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- @communist Free to create something potentially damaging to your own reputation, but costs money to get rid of (and they don't actually get rid of it)? That sounds like my kind of scam!
  
  jqubed said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 1:48am ET
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thismyusername said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:15am ET:

(right click and choose open image in new tab to zoomify)

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- @thismyusername everything's coming up roses!
  
  nadroj said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:24am ET
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- Not sure that's what Ethel Merman had in mind but why not.
  
  mtinks88 said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:27am ET
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- @thismyusername Too funny! Was that real?
  
  Pamtha said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 4:20am ET
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- @Pamtha saw it on reddit, so I am guessing no :)
  
  thismyusername said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 8:41am ET
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mtinks88 said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:26am ET:

This Ashley Madison Hack is the best thing to happen to the internet in a long time. It has provided me great joy.

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- @mtinks88 why? Just curious.
  
  G1 said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:47am ET
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- @G1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
  
  thismyusername said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 8:48am ET
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Pavlov said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 12:51am ET:

So tonight at dinner my wife says to me "Am I gonna see anything I don't want to see if they release the Ashley Madison database?" and I look at her and say, "Well, I don't know, did you use your real name when you joined?"

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- @Pavlov And yet she lets you live...
  
  Seriously, thanks, we're all going to use that.
  
  2many2no said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 1:59am ET
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PocketBrain said Wed, Jul 22nd 2015 at 8:13am ET:

I was gonna join, but I didn't want to lie and say I was married. It just didn't sit well with me.

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