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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:10AM
I call shenanigans. There are no details. Do people often kill themselves upon being caught cheating?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:13AM
They do if they're rich and expect to lose everything in the divorce.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:31AM
They do if they're rich and expect to lose everything in the divorce.
If they kill themselves won't they lose everything to or do you think they all have viking-funerals where they burn their possessions so they can bring them with them to the afterlife? Alternatively buried with them Egyptian-style.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:37AM
"I don't wanna live in a world without all my possessions!"
(Score: 3, Informative) by dcollins on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:27AM
It doesn't need to be "often" to account for 2 in 30 million.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:45AM
Here's another one, San Antonio Police Captain Michael Gorhum [google.com]
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by jasassin on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:48AM
I didn't RTA, but who says it was the cheaters that killed themselves? I see little reason why someone who would cheat on a partner would kill themselves, because obviously they don't care. It's the poor bastard who had the first "love" of his life betray him that's more likely to commit suicide.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:29AM
Or the wife was just really clever and made it look like a suicide...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2015, @02:13PM
They don't care about their partner, but they do care about themselves or some other aspect of their life.
For example, while the cheater may not have cared about their partner to honour the exclusivity of their sexual/romantic attention, they might really love their children and being outed caused them to lose access to their children. They may find death preferable to being alive and not seeing their children (or seeing them and being shamed in their children's eyes).