AshleyMadison Hack Bites MI State Police

[Downriviera]

And now this...Spotify hackers are threatening to release the names of those who listen to Nickelback.

[emu steve]

One other point: let's hope that others are not spoofing e-mail addresses. I've never done it but it isn't that hard to do.

Like many organizations use: First.last@companyname.com [[or first.last@something.gov). Like, I could guess the e-mail address of most everyone at the department I previously worked, e.g., John.smith@{departmentname}.GOV if there was one John Smith working there.

One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist or Edward Snowden to be nefarious in IT.

[Scottathew]

A lot of the time you have to do email confirmations do verify that the email address is actually yours. I'm not sure if this is the case with Ashley Madison. The bigger flag would be whether or not the user had valid credit card data associated with their account.

One other point: let's hope that others are not spoofing e-mail addresses. I've never done it but it isn't that hard to do.

Like many organizations use: First.last@companyname.com [[or first.last@something.gov). Like, I could guess the e-mail address of most everyone at the department I previously worked, e.g., John.smith@{departmentname}.GOV if there was one John Smith working there.

One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to be nefarious in IT.

[MizMotown]

As awful as something such as Ashley Madison is...these hackers should put their skills towards something more useful [[i.e. shutting down terrorists, child porn, etc. sites).

I totally agree. We have enough Morality Police in this country.


What about the people that are being lied to and cheated on? What about those spouses who are being put at risk for sexual transmitted diseases by the ones who carry thru with their affairs? What about the creepy double lives that self-centered, ego oriented people keep hidden in closets until that skeleton is exposed.

In the long run the truth will prevail...this is just one way it'll happen.

[Towne Cluber]

As awful as something such as Ashley Madison is...these hackers should put their skills towards something more useful [[i.e. shutting down terrorists, child porn, etc. sites).

I totally agree. We have enough Morality Police in this country.


What about the people that are being lied to and cheated on? What about those spouses who are being put at risk for sexual transmitted diseases by the ones who carry thru with their affairs? What about the creepy double lives that self-centered, ego oriented people keep hidden in closets until that skeleton is exposed.

In the long run the truth will prevail...this is just one way it'll happen.

I don't like any of it [[cheating, hacking, terrorism, child porn). I'm just amazed that there are people out there with the ability to successfully hack government, big businesses, etc., yet they let the terrorists and child porn sites go. In a way, it says something about the priorities of hackers as well.

[Honky Tonk]

As awful as something such as Ashley Madison is...these hackers should put their skills towards something more useful [[i.e. shutting down terrorists, child porn, etc. sites).

I totally agree. We have enough Morality Police in this country.


What about the people that are being lied to and cheated on? What about those spouses who are being put at risk for sexual transmitted diseases by the ones who carry thru with their affairs? What about the creepy double lives that self-centered, ego oriented people keep hidden in closets until that skeleton is exposed.

In the long run the truth will prevail...this is just one way it'll happen.

Good Post, and I agree with you. I had no idea what Ashley Madison was so I looked it up on Wikipedia. I was a bit taken aback by the casualness of it, and it's cutsey logo. "39 Million subscribers in 53 countries", says a lot about today's society.

[Gpwrangler]

Good Post, and I agree with you. I had no idea what Ashley Madison was so I looked it up on Wikipedia. I was a bit taken aback by the casualness of it, and it's cutsey logo. "39 Million subscribers in 53 countries", says a lot about today's society.

Meh. You don't need to check Ashley Madison to get a read on society. People who act horrified about people cheating on their spouses but drive like assholes on the road are just one of many examples.

[Honky Tonk]

People who act horrified about people cheating on their spouses but drive like assholes on the road are just one of many examples.

I drive like an asshole?????

[Gpwrangler]

I drive like an asshole?????

Lol I wouldn't know, but I know plenty who do!!!

[Lowell]

Evidence is now emerging that Ashley Madison parent company Avid Media may be guilty of hacking a competitor as in this outed email exchange between the president and chief IT officer.

On Nov. 30, 2012, Raja Bhatia, the founding chief technology officer of AshleyMadison.com, sent a message to Biderman [Avid Media pres.] notifying his boss of a security hole discovered in nerve.com, an American online magazine dedicated to sexual topics, relationships and culture.

At the time, nerve.com was experimenting with its own adult dating section, and Bhatia said he’d uncovered a way to download and manipulate the nerve.com user database.

“They did a very lousy job building their platform. I got their entire user base,” Bhatia told Biderman via email, including in the message a link to a Github archive with a sample of the database. “Also, I can turn any non paying user into a paying user, vice versa, compose messages between users, check unread stats, etc.”

[aj3647]

From Wikipedia:

70% of Ashley Madison's users are male. Furthermore, Ashley Madison routinely uses computer-generated female "profiles" to make it seem that more women participate than really do.

Women don't need a website to find men to have sex with and they certainly don't need to pay money to find men to have sex with. These guys who paid money to Ashley Madison are gullible suckers.