Ashley Madison Affair

[Steve James]

Yikes. A site that specializes in hooking up married people for liaisons was hacked, and the names of the ... participants are being published. Now the site's being sued for half a billion bucks. Hmm, I wonder if it were a site for prostitution, would they still be able to be sued if the site were illegally hacked? What if the police hack them?

Anyway, it is kind of funny to find out who's on the list. Not surprising, but entertaining to be sure. The Duggar guy from the tv show --who was an activist for public morals, but had sexually abused his sisters-- is just one. Tsk, tsk.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog ... ar-BBlZx9A

[grzegorz]

The scary part is that thousands of names have been traced to Saudis and over their adultery in punishable by death. Crazy sh*t!

[Steve James]

A lot of money is probably being transferred to anonymous bank accounts. Blackmail is the second oldest profession.

[chud]

Tense times in Government offices after Ashley Madison leak: click

Btw, Mods: it is still taking me at least a couple of tries to post in any thread. Is anyone looking into this issue? It's been ongoing for some time.

[Steve James]

Gov't workers being naughty isn't interesting unless they're the ones who are proclaiming to stand for morality and family values.

[TrainingDummy]

John Mc Afee says "Ashley Madison hack may literally destabilize society"

[grzegorz]

Two people may have committed suicide after Ashley Madison hack: police

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/two-suicid ... ector.html

[Steve James]

Wow, I guess death seemed better than facing the wife.

I read that there are only 3 zip codes in the US that don't have Ashley Madison accounts. Two are Native American; the other is in a place with no internet :0

[DiaitaDoc]

400 North American church leaders expected to resign this Sunday after Ashley Madison hack

[jimmy]

fuck 'dem hoes
dem don' knows

[Bao]

31 million Male users
5.5 million female users . . . . No.... Almost every single female user was a faked account.

Out of those 5.5 million purported female users, Newitz says only 1,492 had ever checked their inboxes, a sign that they were active users. The chat feature was another telltale sign: while 11 million men used chat, only 2,400 women did. The third strike that flagged most of the female profiles as fake was the fact that only 9,700 women ever replied to messages they were sent, versus 5.9 million men who had.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashley-madi ... port-says/

[roger hao]

Is Ashley Madison same as the movie HER then?
2000 shebots interacting with 40 million guys at
The same time?

[grzegorz]

31 million Male users
5.5 million female users . . . . No.... Almost every single female user was a faked account.

Out of those 5.5 million purported female users, Newitz says only 1,492 had ever checked their inboxes, a sign that they were active users. The chat feature was another telltale sign: while 11 million men used chat, only 2,400 women did. The third strike that flagged most of the female profiles as fake was the fact that only 9,700 women ever replied to messages they were sent, versus 5.9 million men who had.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashley-madi ... port-says/

Yeah, I found that fascinating as well. It seems to explain why the hackers targeted them being that the whole thing was basically a billion dollar scam.

Personally I never though anything of it but I did find their advertising pretty annoying.

[Steve James]

I dunno who to believe, but it wouldn't be at all surprising to learn that the number of women participants is inflated.

The enormous data leak from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website has not stopped people joining the service, the company says.

"Hundreds of thousands" of new members joined the website last week, according to owner Avid Life Media.

Details of more than 33 million accounts were stolen from the website and published online in August.

On Friday, the company's chief Noel Biderman stepped down. The firm said the move was in its "best interests".

Angels
In August, a huge dump of the company's data was posted online. It included the personal details of millions of members, and thousands of Noel Biderman's emails.

The data led to questions being asked about the number of females actively using the website.

Some of the emails alluded to the creation of artificial profiles called Ashley's Angels. One email suggested staff were experiencing "writer's block" when creating them.

Number one
"Some journalists have turned the focus of the criminal act against Ashley Madison inside out, attacking us instead of the hackers," the company said on Monday.

The statement said journalists had made "incorrect assumptions" about the number of female users on the website.

"Last week alone, women sent more than 2.8 million messages within our platform", the company said.

"The ratio of male members who paid to communicate with women on our service versus the number of female members who actively used their account (female members are not required to pay to communicate with men on Ashley Madison) was 1.2 to 1.

"These numbers are the main reason that Ashley Madison is the number one service for people seeking discreet relationships."

Prior to the hack, the firm had announced plans to float on the stock exchange in London later this year, with the aim of raising up to $200m (£134m)

[Bao]

Yeah, I found that fascinating as well. It seems to explain why the hackers targeted them being that the whole thing was basically a billion dollar scam.

Make sense. That's a good reason.

I dunno who to believe, but it wouldn't be at all surprising to learn that the number of women participants is inflated.

What should they else say? Admit that it's a scam? Just read some reviews of the site and you'll understand how worthless it is. The funny part is .... that it's mostly women who give good reviews. Or maybe there's a logic to it.... I guess....

And yeah, of course they'll get more Members now. The hackers helped the site with a world wide marketing campaign.