“The people I interviewed that were in a committed relationship really feared that this would be the end of it”, she said in an email. And we expect good conduct on the part of our people….
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A group calling themselves Impact Team is claiming they are behind the data leak.
So at the first possible opportunity I grabbed my partner and tried, in a very odd and confusing way, to tell him how I had ended up with not one but two Ashley Madison accounts.
Many say the month of September is going to be a big one for divorce lawyers in America because the hack is outing those who have signed up for the website, leading to affairs, which translates into divorces.
Previous releases this week have contained millions of email addresses, including U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations, and emails by the company’s founder Noel Biderman.
The group offered the owners of the hook-up site, Avid Life Media (ALM), an ultimatum – either take down the site or they would post the details on the Dark Web.
A variation of this same theme allegedly came from a Bedouin Arab lawmaker in Israel named Talab Abu Arar, whose parliamentary e-mail address was found amongst the Ashley Madison data dump.
The data included credit card details, email accounts and home addresses. Adultery can be a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Other employees who are subject to morality clauses in their employment contracts may face trouble.
And while Social Security numbers weren’t involved Ashley Madison hack, people should be especially wary of using them as a backup password to access online information, given the potentially disastrous consequences that could result if they’re intercepted, he says.
Security experts have warned of blackmail, and there have already been some attempts.
The company, too, may have some financial troubles ahead. According to the lawyers behind the class action suit, the legal action will not include any action against the Impact Team hackers. Shore joined Ashley Madison after finding himself single again when his wife of 30 years died from breast cancer. We did it to stop the next 60 million.
Along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Canadian Police are also investigating the Toronto-based company.
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On Tuesday, hackers released the private information of customers who’d used the online service, which connects people seeking to have affairs.
