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Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the cheaters-never-prosper dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

According to security blogger Graham Cluley, some former members of the site are now receiving blackmail demands through the post. The letters ask for thousands of dollars and threaten to out former members if the lucre is not forthcoming.

Ever since the database of Ashley Madison users was displayed online, blackmailers have been quick to try and extort money from members. The swift exposure of high-profile casualties, like former director of the Family Research Council Josh Duggar, who resigned in disgrace after being shown to have multiple accounts with the website, showed there was money to be made.

After the database went online, at least one suicide was linked to the leak.

It later emerged that the whole website was something of a busted flush, with around one per cent of the people on there being women looking for affairs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:06PM (#277041)

    Scumbags looking to get their willy wet deserve being served divorce papers, or at least a bobbit from their pissed off wives.
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bobbit [urbandictionary.com]

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:19PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:19PM (#277044)

    How do you control the data leak for the insertion of false positives? You do not have the original data, and can't tell which names were inserted into the list before it was released. Maybe all of the names are correct, except for the Presidential candidate and CEO of a major charity. There's no way to verify which names ought to be in the leak because they were original, and which ones were added for defamation value.

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    (E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:23PM (#277045)

      Screenshots, do they have profile photos?

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @03:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @03:28PM (#277134)

        because those can't be faked, right?