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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 20 2015, @05:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the cheaters-never-prosper dept.

KrebsonSecurity is reporting that the online "cheating" site AshleyMadison.com (and other sites run by the Avid Life Media group) has been hacked with user information compromised by a group called the Impact Team.

The group is threatening to release all data online as a result of alleged lies the ALM group told members unless the sites are entirely shut down.

"Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It's also a complete lie," the hacking group wrote. "Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed."

AshleyMadison.com does offer a $20 "Full Delete" option for a users profile, as detailed in this ArsTechnica article from 2014. Obviously, this "Full Delete" is now useless, as the information is already (allegedly) in the hands of the hackers.

Is this a case of altruistic hacking or a possible case of revenge?


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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Monday July 20 2015, @08:42PM

    by tathra (3367) on Monday July 20 2015, @08:42PM (#211568)

    adultery is still illegal [wikipedia.org] in many US states. marriage is a contract, after all, and enforcing contracts is one of the responsibilities of government, otherwise there's no point to them.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Monday July 20 2015, @08:59PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday July 20 2015, @08:59PM (#211574) Journal

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/11/15/adultery-still-crime-states-including-mass/KiIPGRcFnAeT4CGmenFTKM/story.html [bostonglobe.com]

    When David H. Petraeus resigned as CIA director because of adultery, he was widely understood to be acknowledging a misdeed but not a crime. Yet in his state of residence, Virginia, as in 22 others including Massachusetts, adultery remains a criminal act, a vestige of the way US law has anchored legitimate sexual activity within marriage.

    In most of those states, including New York, adultery is a misdemeanor. But in others — Massachusetts, Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin — it is a felony, though rarely prosecuted. In the armed forces, it can be punished severely, although usually in combination with greater wrongdoing.

    In nearly all the rest of the industrialized world, adultery is not covered by criminal code.

    Some law professors, including Joanna L. Grossman of Hofstra University, said one reason that adultery laws remain on the books is that getting rid of them would require politicians to declare their opposition to them, which few would do. In addition, many like the idea of the criminal code serving as a kind of moral guide even if certain laws are almost never applied.

    Petraeus is a retired four-star general who gets a military pension and remains subject to military codes of conduct that prohibit adultery. But Diane H. Mazur, a professor of law at the University of Florida and a former Air Force officer, said that the chances of the Army calling Petraeus back to active service in order to court-martial him in an adultery case are zero, as are any chances of state criminal charges being brought.

    http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c015.php [scstatehouse.gov]

    SECTION 16-15-120. Buggery.

    Whoever shall commit the abominable crime of buggery, whether with mankind or with beast, shall, on conviction, be guilty of felony and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for five years or shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court.

    Oral sex is also a felony in South Carolina.

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    • (Score: 1) by redbear762 on Monday July 20 2015, @09:55PM

      by redbear762 (5576) on Monday July 20 2015, @09:55PM (#211608)

      Patraeus's career hasn't been harmed in any significant way except for a major black eye and known as a cheating asshole to just about everyone; hehas been called back to serve as a de facto consultant against ISIS.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 20 2015, @10:25PM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday July 20 2015, @10:25PM (#211624) Journal

        His career looked a lot worse back in 2012, when that article was written, and in early 2013 [wikipedia.org], when he took a visiting professor position at City University of New York for a $1 salary after the proposed $200,000 salary was slammed.

        Since joining KKR Global Institute in May 2013 and getting the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal in March 2015, he has done very well for himself.

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    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2015, @10:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2015, @10:36PM (#211627)

      Most people know better than to seek legal counsel on their marriages from a newspaper article.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hash14 on Monday July 20 2015, @10:53PM

      by hash14 (1102) on Monday July 20 2015, @10:53PM (#211639)

      This just goes to show how stupid moral laws are.

      Do you honestly expect politicians to go on the public record for fair treatment of activities like adultery? They're certainly not worthy of felonies and prison sentences - but they are taboo, and no one wants to be seen doing anything to condone it, hence, they will never be repealed.

      How about this for a rule: any law that hasn't been enforced in the previous 10 years must be explicitly renewed to stay enforceable. It might take a bit of creativity to enforce, but this mechanism definitely worked to its intended effect for the US surveillance laws.

      • (Score: 2) by penguinoid on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:35AM

        by penguinoid (5331) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:35AM (#211807)

        Maybe all laws, other than the Constitution, should go up for review every so often. If nothing else, that way politicians don't have to make the same thing illegal again just to show they oppose it. And they also can't bury their support for laws by going "oh well it passed nothing to be done about it anymore".

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      • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:51AM

        by Justin Case (4239) on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:51AM (#212142) Journal

        > any law must be explicitly renewed every 10 years

        FTFY