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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: 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.