Ashley Madison out of business?

[cristycurves]

It just goes from bad to worse for this guy doesn't it? Damn-Not too smart

Apparently reading the bible daily isn't a cure all! I think when anyone has something to hide they should be prepared for it to be exposed at some point and time, with the internet and social media it's far to easy to find out info, even for dummies.

 

[oldguyzer]

OK, I was half of them...multiple handles :biggrin2:

 

[Madman]

Apparently reading the bible daily isn't a cure all! I think when anyone has something to hide they should be prepared for it to be exposed at some point and time, with the internet and social media it's far to easy to find out info, even for dummies.

In normal instances I firmly believe it's nobodies business what another person does but when a person preaches publicly about family values only to act totally opposite it sickens me. Just like many Reform Party members during BillC36 who undoubtedly have sugar babies all around the world coming out preaching against paying for sex....same idea. Hypocrites deserve to be shamed!

 

[cristycurves]

In normal instances I firmly believe it's nobodies business what another person does but when a person preaches publicly about family values only to act totally opposite it sickens me. Just like many Reform Party members during BillC36 who undoubtedly have sugar babies all around the world coming out preaching against paying for sex....same idea. Hypocrites deserve to be shamed!

Agreed, but we're all flawed and most are hypocrites, I'm including myself. But in this instance and the other you've mentioned, it is often those who preach against the very thing they themselves participate in, perhaps guilt causes this, who knows and perhaps their outing is karma

 

[Johnnybehorny]

Worries me how easy they get to hack military sites and how they can email from a governor's email and IP address.

 

[Wanker]

[h=1]Ashley Madison hack includes hundreds of gov’t email addresses[/h][h=2]Massive hack of adultery-promoting website includes hundreds of federal, provincial government emails.[/h]
OTTAWA–Hundreds of federal employees’ email addresses are included in leaked membership data for hookup site Ashley Madison, released publicly by hackers who demanded the adultery-promoting service shut down.

The email addresses in no way confirm public servants’ participation on the site, nor do they indicate any wrongdoing — anyone could sign up someone else’s email address, and the site promoted single connections in addition to extra-marital affairs.

But the initial estimation of security researchers is the data does appear to be legitimate. And the mere presence of more than 500 federal government emails connected to the site raises a number of security concerns, both for government networks and for potential blackmail.

The emails were included among a massive leak of Ashley Madison users’ personal information, including credit card transactions, location data and sexual interests. The site boasts of almost 39 million users worldwide, but that number is probably inflated by fake, inactive or dummy accounts.

The federal Treasury Board, the department responsible for the government’s IT practices, directed queries Wednesday night to the government’s acceptable use policy: “The Guideline on Acceptable Network and Device Use applies to the professional and personal use of Government of Canada electronic networks and devices, and Web 2.0 tools and services, including social media,” wrote Rebecca Grace, acting director of the board’s public affairs department.

The information held by Ashley Madison’s owners, Avid Life Media Inc., is extremely sensitive. Security researchers and journalists have noted the hack, pulled off more than a month ago by a group calling themselves The Impact Team, is unique in its scope, sensitivity and potential for offline damage.


Ray Boisvert, a former assistant director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said problems could arise if any of those employees had security clearances that could be exploited.

“Lifestyle is always a touchy issue because it’s not a judgmental thing (in security screening). . . . It’s really about the potential for compromise,” Boisvert said Wednesday.

“Why would you use your user name, your client ID, from your credentials from work, to log in and create an account at AshleyMadison.com? You’d think somebody would be using hotmail and, as most people do, a pseudonym.”

Boisvert said such credentials as email addresses or user names could be used by other malicious actors to try to gain access to other websites used by those people identified in the Ashley Madison hack.

In all, 548 unique email addresses for various federal agencies were included in the data dump, including Canadian Forces members, RCMP and Canadian Border Services employees.

A further 64 emails were connected to Toronto.ca.

A total of 1,494 emails with the Ontario.ca domain were included, but that domain covers everyone from school board employees to police to municipal staff.

The leak also includes emails with the domain names of prominent Canadian companies, including CP Rail, Scotiabank and CIBC, though it is impossible to verify if any of the email addresses are legitimate. Journalism outlets, including the Toronto Star, CBC, the Globe and Mail and CTV, appear among the emails.

When contacted Wednesday, CP Rail said it had no comment on the matter. The other companies and journalism outlets did not respond by press time.

The Star is not naming anyone included in the membership data, public employees or not. The data cannot be verified, and members are consenting adults.

In a statement Wednesday, Avid Life Media said it became aware of an attack on its systems in July and was actively investigating the hack. The Toronto-based company said it was co-operating with investigators from the RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police, the FBI, as well as the Toronto Police Service.

“This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality,” the company wrote. “It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities.”

The company’s slogan — “Life is short. Have an Affair” — apparently drew the ire of The Impact Team. In July, the group demanded Ashley Madison shut down within a month.

“We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of (Avid Life Media) and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data,” the group posted in a statement accompanying the data.

“Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages . . . Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.”

Although the site’s marketing focuses on extra-marital affairs, the service can also be used by single men and women for consensual relationships. The sites’ users appear to be predominantly male.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ncludes-hundreds-of-govt-email-addresses.html

 

[Macho Man]

[h=1]There’s a way to see whether you’ve been affected by the Ashley Madison leak … even if you never signed up[/h]
More than 30 million people have been affected by the Ashley Madison hack, with financial details, physical descriptions, sexual fantasies, and much more leaked online for the entire world to see.
Numerous websites are now popping up that promise to let you see whether you have been affected by the hack. You enter your email address, and the site checks whether it is in the data dump.
One of these is HaveIBeenPwned.com. It sets itself apart from other similar services by not just checking the Ashley Madison database, but also cross-referencing it with a huge archive of previously hacked customer details.
[h=4]Related[/h]

This includes the Adobe hack, which affected a staggering 150 million accounts, as well as a Snapchat hack that affected 4.6 million accounts and an Adult Friend Finder hack that affected 3.9 million accounts. Altogether, the site can check your email against 220 million potentially compromised accounts drawn from 53 hacked websites.

Troy Hunt, the developer behind HaveIBeenPwned.com, has set the Ashley Madison data so that users will receive an email only if they’ve been hacked. This means you can’t use the website to see whether your friends or coworkers have been affected. In a blog post, he says he has done this because he doesn’t “believe it’s responsible to make all the AM accounts discoverable by anyone” because the data is “sensitive.”
It’s also worth checking even if you have never signed up for Ashley Madison yourself. The site doesn’t actually verify the email addresses users provide, so it’s easy to sign up with a fake address, or one belonging to someone else. You could be in there without even knowing it.

 

[Macho Man]

[h=1]Do YOU trust your partner? Millions of suspicious spouses crash websites set up to find names of Ashley Madison 'cheaters' as map reveals locations of men and women registered with the adultery website[/h]

• Panicked members and their partners have been ploughing through leak
• One internet user said his database crashed within minutes of going live
• Ashley Madison has 37m members around the world including 1.2m Brits
• Files include names, addresses phone numbers and sexual fantasies
• Gay Saudi man says he fears death penalty after being outed on database

Millions of panicked Ashley Madison members and their suspicious spouses have crashed websites hosting the 'cheat sheet' of 37million users worldwide including more than a million Britons.
Several searchable databases of names and sexual fantasies linked the data hack had to shut down within minutes of going live because they could not cope with demand, MailOnline can reveal.
A series of world maps plotting where the Ashley Madison members live have also been plotted and posted online.
Hackers yesterday put millions of marriages at risk after they published the entire Ashley Madison database online, including names, addresses, credit card details and sexual fantasies.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...n-women-registered-adultery-website-live.html

 

[User-E]

Maybe we should all just quit the internet.

 

[oldguyzer]

Maybe we should all just quit the internet.

Why bother? It'll never catch on. Let it die a natural death.

 

[blackram]

A second batch release, this time twice as big as the first, and this time potentially worse for the company itself than the first. This release now includes company emails, and the source code for their site. Emails from the company founder can be potentially damaging. The source code would allow more hackers to analyse the code and find vulnerabilities to exploit in the future. And the weirdest thing is that despite all of this, Ashley Madison's growth rate hasn't decreased! WTF?!? :no:

Hackers taunt Ashley Madison founder by exposing his emails in new data dump
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/ha...nder-by-exposing-his-emails-in-new-data-dump/

 

[50cents]

Josh Duggar after Ashley Madison hack: 'I have been the biggest hypocrite ever'

(CNN)Reality TV star Josh Duggar is apologizing after being outed as one of the 32 million people who used the cheating website Ashley Madison.

Hackers stole customers' information from the website and released it to the public this week, exposing something Duggar tried to keep secret.

"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife," Duggar said in a statement Thursday.

He did not specifically address Ashley Madison in his statement, which was issued in the wake of the hackers' data dump and later modified to omit the reference to pornography.
"I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust," Duggar said.

Earlier this year, Duggar was forced to apologize after reports emerged alleging he molested girls as a teenager, including his sisters. He said then that he "acted inexcusably."

Duggar, 27, is the oldest of the children who appeared on TLC's hit show "19 Kids and Counting." The show has since been canceled.
According to an analysis from the cybersecurity company Trustify, Duggar paid Ashley Madison some $986 between 2012 and 2015. He used the name, josh_the_man, and described himself as an "attached male seeking female," according to the analysis.

Duggar reportedly listed some of his desires as: conventional sex, experimenting with sex toys and one-night stands. He listed travel and photography as personal interests. He said he was turned on by professional, confident women who dislike routine and have a secret love nest.

"As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example," Duggar said in his Thursday statement. "I humbly ask for your forgiveness."

The Duggars are known for being devout Christians who don't believe in practicing birth control and whose children follow strict courtship rules.

Ashley Madison, which is owned by Avid Life Media, is designed to help married people cheat on their spouses. Its slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair."

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/us/josh-duggar-ashley-madison/index.html

 

[Cardinal Fang]

You know none of this would have happened if he'd just gone on Christian Mingle.

 

[User-E]

You know none of this would have happened if he'd just gone on Christian Mingle.

I was a member on a Christian dating site so long ago that I can't even remember what it was called. All it meant was that you could find horny, perverted people with compatible religious beliefs.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

I was a member on a Christian dating site so long ago that I can't even remember what it was called. All it meant was that you could find horny, perverted people with compatible religious beliefs.

It's a good thing then that religion brings us together.

 

[User-E]

TORONTO -- Analysis of leaked Ashley Madison data shows that some of the cheating website's customers made credit-card transactions from computers attached to the Department of National Defence and the House of Commons.

The data, stored in more than 2,500 files, involved transactions spanning from March 2008 to several days in June of this year.

The Canadian Press has sorted through the data to find 76 credit-card transactions were made on DND computers involving 42 email addresses, and 25 transactions from the House of Commons using 13 email addresses.

Some of the transactions are authorizations followed by a separate transaction for payment.

The data includes the transaction amount, credit card company, the last four digits of the card's account number, the customer's name, city, province, country, postal code, an email address and in some cases streets addresses and IP information.

Some of the names mentioned in the House of Commons transaction records are easily verifiable as current or former staffers. In the DND transaction records, some of the addresses are DND facilities.

A spokesman for the Treasury Board Secretariat, which represents the federal government, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Toronto-based Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison, says the company doesn't store full credit-card data from members.

The credit-card information of U.S. government workers -- some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and the Justice Department -- was also revealed in the data breach.

"I was doing some things I shouldn't have been doing," a Justice Department investigator told the Associated Press.

Asked about the threat of blackmail, the investigator said if prompted he would reveal his actions to his family and employer to prevent it.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the Pentagon was looking into the list of people who used military email addresses.

Adultery can be a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. There are no such regulations among military or defence employees in Canada.

https://www.cp24.com/news/defence-d...it-card-data-in-ashley-madison-leak-1.2527710

 

[blackram]

You know none of this would have happened if he'd just gone on Christian Mingle.

Yeah, who'd recognize Josh Duggar on a Christian website? :biggrin2:

 

[Animal]

She bought his story Damn-Not too smart

[h=1]'I've been completely cleansed of this sin': Married Christian vlogger admits to being an Ashley Madison love cheat but says his wife has forgiven him - and blames his actions on 'fleshly, sinful desires'[/h]

• In new YouTube video and caption, Sam Rader, 29, admits he is 'a sinner'
• He says he set up Ashley Madison account in 2013 to meet other women
• But he claims he 'never came to close' to physically cheating on wife, Nia
• He says he paid to join website out of 'fleshly desire and sinful curiosity'
• Mrs Rader, 26, meanwhile, reveals that she has forgiven the father-of-two
• 'Our marriage is worth fighting for and it always will be,' she tells viewers
• New video comes just hours after Daily Mail Online exclusively revealed Mr Rader was a paying subscriber to cheating website, which was hacked
• He allegedly set up his account in September 2013 - the same month his second child was born and he celebrated four year wedding anniversary
• He made two $189 payments to 'site, according to stolen data from hack

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...en-blames-actions-fleshly-sinful-desires.html

 

[jackaubrey]

I checked and I'm on the list. I signed on out of curiosity, but never turned over any credit or address info fortunately. As i recall you had to give an email address just to "look". I closed the account the next day. Did the same time with E-harmony, Plenty of Fish - again out of curiosity. Obviously, will not be doing that again. Which begs the question. How secure are we here? Hmmm. What info is recorded and maintained by the site. IP addresses?

 

[blackram]

I use either a burner email address, which you can get from places like spamgourmet.com for free. Or you can get yourself a pooner account, which is exclusively used for adult entertainment purposes.