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Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, according to police in Canada. The police in Toronto gave no further information about the deaths.
Ashley Madison's Canadian parent company Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they added.
Scammers have reportedly moved quickly to exploit the leaked database:
[Toronto police's acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans] warned that miscreants were already moving in on panicked users of the websites, offering – for a fee of course – to remove the offending details from the database in exchange for one Bitcoin. This is, of course, impossible because the data is already out there, but Evans said this hadn't stopped the scammers trying it on.
The Canadian police have also discovered cases of scammers contacting people on the database and threatening to expose them to family and work colleagues if a payment wasn't sent. Anyone threatened in this way is urged to get in contact with the police via a special website or telephone number set up by Toronto police.
The investigative team can be reached at (416) 808-2040. Anonymous tips are always welcome through @1800222TIPS #AMcaseTPS
In related news:
- 15,000 U.S. government email addresses were found in the database, and Washington, D.C. reportedly had the highest membership rate of any city on the site.
- Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says that service members found to have used the site may face disciplinary action.
- From the EFF, Ashley Madison's Owners Give In to Temptation To Misuse The DMCA.
- From The Intercept, Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User.
Previously: Hackers Reportedly Leak Nearly 10 GB of Ashley Madison ("Cheating Site") Files
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:09AM
That website operators have now blood on their hands (yeah, the crackers, too, but they are crackers, what you expect?). There is a phd/masters thesis here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:31AM
There is a phd/masters thesis here.
You could make a career out those guys! But then you'd be a bottom-feeding scum-sucker, or a forensic psychologist, but then I repeat myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:40AM
> That website operators have now blood on their hands
I'd wait until more details come out. There were like 40 million accounts, even if only 10% were real that's still 4 million people. There are hundreds of suicides every day - there is a pretty good chance its coincidence. Especially with the stock market cratering over the last two weeks, seems to me that the type to be on AM are also the type to be leveraged in the market.
(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:10AM
yeah, the crackers, too, but they are crackers, what you expect?
How would you know if they are white or not? That's a pretty serious inferiority (or self hatred) complex you've got there ...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:43AM
I believe "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." pretty much covered this.
(Score: 2) by dmc on Wednesday August 26 2015, @05:17AM
Funny, if I was looking for a 10 word summary the first ones coming to mind are-
LOVINT
blackmail
honeypot
cybersecurity illusions, fraud, disinformation
[general's name busted in florida that i've forgotten]
false flag reputation destruction
today's news of false/anonymous flag prosecutors obstructing beyond repair justice in some of the katrina police related deaths
Ok, I guess I went past my limit, hope you got the idea. This actually does matter, though I suspect it matters in one of those ways of using twisted propaganda to try and suck the air out of extremely legitimate, much broader ranging issues. Specifically, compare and contrast the mainstream journalistic response to this story, versus the original (and later) Snowden LOVINT allegations. If we had a free press, they would have gone nuts over that shit, and people would see through this story as being a very specifically not so relevant subset of the much larger issue. I.e. how easy it is for someone with Snowden's access to run disturbing levels of political blackmail ops.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:28AM
No they don't. That's why homicide uses a whole different word that suicide. It's like as if you got upset at this answer and decided to kill yourself. How the hell is that my fault?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:25PM
Oh come on.
Life isn't binary. Neither AM nor the hackers pulled any triggers, but they pushed a lot of people that much closer to pulling the trigger. Denying that these events can not be a factor in a suicide is denying human nature.