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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: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:30AM
and the rest of us is reminded that "A prostitute is always a better deal than a mistress [or AM_encounter]"
I'm not sure how to feel about people who provided enough information to a cheating website to be identified, but can't live with the consequences of that info's release.
http://despair.com/collections/posters/products/mistakes [despair.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:45AM
> and the rest of us is reminded that "A prostitute is always a better deal than a mistress [or AM_encounter]"
That's a very reductionist analysis. For most people, affairs aren't about getting their dick wet, they are about alienation in the marriage, getting attention and validation. The kind of prostitute that provides that level of service is functionality indistinguishable from a mistress.
> I'm not sure how to feel about people who provided enough information to a cheating website to be identified, but can't live with the consequences of that info's release.
A little empathy for people who are neither perfect nor computer security experts would be a good start. They took AM at their word, it may not have been the best judgment but if the population at large had a good understanding of internet security facebook would be a ghost town.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:07AM
And you're asking too much - to empathize with cheaters, ones that actively look to cheat rather than one-thing-lead-to-another sorts. Why the hell would they sign up for annonymous hook up?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:34AM
> Why the hell would they sign up for annonymous hook up?
They didn't sign up for anonymous hook ups, that's tindr's market.
They signed up to meet other people and have an affair.
AM's slogan was "Life's short, have an affair."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:54AM
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:30AM
Until you get busted in a sting or end up with an embarrassing/chronic/life threatening sexually transmitted infection.