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Multiple reports suggest that Impact Team has leaked around 9.6 to 10 gigabytes of data from the "cheating/affair website" Ashley Madison onto Tor sites (now available via BitTorrent). According to Ars Technica:
A 10-gigabyte file purportedly containing e-mails, member profiles, credit-card transactions and other sensitive Ashley Madison information became available as a BitTorrent download in the past few hours. Ars downloaded the massive file and it appeared to contain a trove of details taken from a clandestine dating site, but so far there is nothing definitively linking it to Ashley Madison. User data included e-mail addresses, profile descriptions, addresses provided by users, weight, and height. A separate file containing credit card transaction data didn't include full payment card numbers or billing addresses.
Rob Graham, CEO of Errata Security, said the dump also included user passwords that were cryptographically protected using the bcrypt hashing algorithm. That's among the most secure ways to store passwords, because bcrypt is extremely slow, a trait that requires crackers to devote vast amounts of time and computing resources. Still, it's highly likely a large percentage of the hashes will be cracked, given rampant use of weak passwords.
Ashley Madison officials have stopped short of confirming the published information was extracted from the breach.
"We have now learned that the individual or individuals responsible for this attack claim to have released more of the stolen data," they wrote in an e-mail to Ars. "We are actively monitoring and investigating this situation to determine the validity of any information posted online and will continue to devote significant resources to this effort. Furthermore, we will continue to put forth substantial efforts into removing any information unlawfully released to the public, as well as continuing to operate our business."
Previously: Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked
(Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Wednesday August 19 2015, @06:33AM
If someone said "gravity is when things move towards the ground" and I said "no, it is not", would you respond with a full request for scientific definitions of gravity, with a full explanation of general relativity? Or do you think marriage is less complex than gravity?
So no, I wouldn't care to pretend to give a decisive definition of marriage, that would be pretentious.
To move from "there are legal contracts imposed on marriage" to "marriage is a legal contract" is tremendously unsound. Do you really think that marriage evolved in humans after legal contracts? If a judge said "oh you didn't fill out the paperwork properly, you aren't married" would you expect married people to just shrug their shoulders and go their separate ways in life? I realize it's human nature to support cynical statements, but that doesn't make them true.
(Score: 1) by szopin on Wednesday August 19 2015, @07:41AM
Funny you mention that, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consummation [wikipedia.org]
'in some legal systems a marriage may be annulled if it has not been consummated. Consummation is also very relevant in the case of a common law marriage.'
What you seem to be arguing is that people choose to live in pairs, for which no legal contract is needed indeed. But marriage is actually defined as a contract (confirmed by someone, whether religious person or civil servant, that makes it legally binding, or would you assume that two people telling each other they love one another is marriage?)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 19 2015, @09:11AM
I like this much better than a simple "legal matter has nothing to do with marriage" (I couldn't discount such an interpretation of your first reaction).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford