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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:57AM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:24AM
Or maybe the moralizing public and media [firstlook.org].
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:25AM
Maybe the spouse who finds forgiveness in his or her heart?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:54AM
Wasnt the hackers message basically a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots or paid staff.
So the website is in essence a scam and that's what the hackers want A-M to admit?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:35AM
> Wasnt the hackers message basically a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots or paid staff.
No. Their initial complaint was that AM was selling a service for ~$20 to scrub your details from the website - which was extortionate in and of itself - and then not actually performing that service. There did seem to be some anger there too which made people suspect that the hacker had been cheated on by someone using A-M. But the fake women thing was just something that had been suspected for years (and proven to be true in court for other sites like match.com), the A-M data dump only confirmed it.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:26AM
Hmm... considering that women were more common on that website, I believe the leaked data more than any conspiracy theories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:27AM
a statement against A-M because the vast overwhelming majority of their female users are bots
Filthy Humanists. Fembots need love too!
Wait, what century is this? Read it again in 0x80 years or consider it a joke if you've never heard of Social Justice Robot Warriors.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:30AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zugedneb on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:51AM
It is the hackers.
If lifelong marriage does not fit the human nature, then fucking use the democratic tools available to change the society. The only people who seem to actually fight for their freedom is the faggot (and variations) community...
As other example, there are plenty of people who fought with their life at stake, to smoke ganja. And when it will be legalized, it is thanks to them.
What have heterosexuals done for themselves lately?
trolololol... what a boring topic...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:09PM
If lifelong marriage does not fit the human nature, then why do I know people who have been married longer than I have lived? You might as well ask "If murder does not fit the human nature..."
Some people cheat and steal and commit adultery. NOT most people.
mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:31PM
> Some people cheat and steal and commit adultery. NOT most people.
Puhlease. The idea that only one course of human behaviour is normal and everything else is an aberration is profoundly fascist. People are complicated, different people have wildly differing life circumstances. Boiling it down to black and white is to eliminate all meaning from the question.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by etherscythe on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:22PM
So you know some; that's anecdotal (ever take a statistics course? Wish I had, it applies much more often than anybody ever told me). I know a few like that too, but let's be honest, those are exceptions, not the rule. A few people have the advantages which result in them become materially rich in this society. Similarly, some few people are lucky to find a mate which is compatible, where of the two neither of them die in the time frame you describe. Last I heard, half of all marriages end in divorce - in the first year.
Is being rich in human nature? Being gay? I myself wonder if having "temporary" marriages, say only 5-10 years long at the end of which it automatically expires, might be a good thing for society. " 'Til death do you part" certainly doesn't seem to be for everybody, or even necessarily the majority.
Just some food for thought.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday August 25 2015, @10:20PM
I was lucky enough to find a great wife who I am very compatible with. It's been over 13 years. We are REALLY compatible, but forever is a long, long time. We decided to open our relationship to allow for outside exploring. No need to lie about seeing someone else - it's all in the open.
I'm not sure if it will turn out to be a good idea or a terrible idea, but that's what we are trying. I've been writing journal entries on the experience if anyone is interested...
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Tuesday August 25 2015, @11:13PM
I'm suspicious of that statistic--I've heard too many variations of it over the years: within one year, or 20; applied to the US or to the UK; assigned to a single year or many; I just know I've been hearing it since the early 80s. Sounds like a "zombie statistic" to me.
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OK, I got a wild hare and went to look it up (googled "zombie statistic 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce"); this December 2014 NYT article [nytimes.com] was the most recent I found, claiming that rates have been decreasing for 20 years, and this 2005 article, [nytimes.com] cited in the previous, claiming that, when calculated correctly, it has never exceeded 41 percent. (Apparently the 50% claim comes from dividing the divorces in a single year by the marriages and extrapolating from there; rather than "calculat[ing] how many people who have ever married subsequently divorced.")
Still have a lot of reading to do and bunches of stats to wade through--but I'm learning something new, and I've been curious about that statistic ever since I read (years ago) the dubious claim that it had come from a single city in the nineteen-teens.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:09PM
None of the above. All are in the wrong.
mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org
(Score: 2) by mrchew1982 on Wednesday August 26 2015, @02:46AM
There aren't any good guys in this, you might as well stop looking. I also doubt that there are any machevalian bad guys either. Only infinite shades of gray. I think that anybody ready to pass moral judgement should step back and take a sober look at their own life, none of us are ghandi or Mother Teresa.
I really don't condone what anyone did in this, but I also feel some slight sympathy for each of the parties. The scummy website just fell afoul of greed. Who knows why the users did it, each probably has his/her own reasons. It's impossible to say that I could or would do any better in the same situation. The hackers wanted change, but exposed a lot of peoples foibles in the process.