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Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:33AM   
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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Original Submission

• too late/bad timing too late/bad timing (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @01:22PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @01:22PM (#277064)

  who remembers ashley madison anymore?

  it's star wars and christmas and new years. nobody is going to pay attention to months old news with all the shiny consumerist shit we're being bombarded by.

  isis can't even beat star wars for attention. what hope does ashley madison ransom have?

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• Re:too late/bad timing (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @02:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @02:36PM (#277094)

  Should I be paying attention to it? Perhaps these people should be persecuted until the day they die?

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• Re:too late/bad timing Re:too late/bad timing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @02:46PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @02:46PM (#277102)

  I have special preview tickets to see Star Wars a day early, but can't make it. Sucks more than ashley madison.

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  • Re:too late/bad timing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @03:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @03:00PM (#277111)

    With all the hype, no reviews and the large number of screens I suspect it will be a turkey. Disney appears to be trying to make as much money as it can before that becomes widely known.

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  • Re:too late/bad timing Re:too late/bad timing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @05:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @05:08PM (#277203)

    I have special preview tickets to see Star Wars a day early, but can't make it. Sucks more than ashley madison.

    And not in the fun, sexy way either, eh?

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    • Re:too late/bad timing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:22PM (#277280)

      Lets see... stay home with the flu or get an std, I'll take the former.

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