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Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked

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

evilcam writes:

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: 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sentences - but they are taboo, and no one wants to be seen doing anything to condone it, hence, they will never be repealed.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.

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  • (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