Ashley Madison searchable database

[Cinderella]

It has happened already with numerous retailers. I'm trying to think of all the ones I know of such as Target, Home Depot, Kmart, Michaels, Neiman Marcus, Bebe, ect. Usually you get a notification from them that your information has been compromised. Then they reissue credit cards or whatever. Most of the hacking for retailers is to get credit card information to sell on the deep web where for a membership fee people can have access to multiple cards and reprint them for personal use. However, the hackers have all the personal information such as phone numbers and items transaction information as well, but it doesn't appear the hackers are interested in dumping data of what people are buying.

Companies don't always disclose everything that was obtained in the breach but as we're finding out with the Ashley Madison case the hackers got the inner workings of the network and correspondence between members in the company. It was a pretty deep glut of stuff.

Our Kmart was hacked recently and we got a notification from our bank that our cards were compromised and they were automatically reissuing us new cards.

Remember when Target was hacked during the holidays? I think we even started a thread on here about it. People were wondering if they needed to call and cancel their cards with them. http://www.medicalspouse.com/forums/...=target+hacked

[rufflesanddots]

Yeah, I get that it's already happened but I'm not necessarily embarrassed by being a Target or Home Depot shopper, or having one in my home. The retail hacks likely didn't set up families for public humiliation. Since the AM data is now searchable, it would be very easy for anyone (a nosy neighbor or a reporter) to find out who's been sniffing around. God forbid DH ever has an affair, but I would be extra mortified if someone on the internet could search a database proving he had one or was after one. How awful. I would probably want to die of shame.

I think the thing some people are forgetting is that exposing a cheater generally means exposing the cheater's family (spouse, kids, extended family, etc.). That is cruel and unfair, no matter how despicable the cheater.

[Cinderella]

If you download Tor and go on the deep web your mind is going to pop.

[MrsK]

I was surprised at 37 million too. Some websites say it's more like 36 million though. I would also think that cheaters would use a fake email or another email you don't know about. Wouldn't it be difficult to hide the credit card use for the website though?

The NYTs also posted a link to a second website to check the Ashley Madison emails so that you can cross verify the first website email database.

The Ashley Madison Data Dump, Explained

Second website: http://www.trustify.info/check

The only way to see the full data dump is to download the Tor browser. Then go to the dark web and download the data. It will show credit card information, user profiles, sexual preferences, exchanges, ect.

Even 36 million! Starbucks boasts that 60 million customers visit their stores every week. Imagine more than half of those people using this service.

[Cinderella]

36 million, 37 million, multi-millions

[spotty_dog]

So, I have some totally sexually liberated friends on my Facebook who can offer an interesting perspective on things sometimes. In this case, this tweet came up on my feed, about a gay man in Saudia Arabia who used that site to find partners while in the US and is now afraid of being pursued with the death penalty for his homosexuality because his orientation, which is illegal in his home country, is effectively being leaked via this hack: https://twitter.com/AtticusThomas/st...077221889?s=04

Another person pointed out that many of these users could be in mutually non-monogamous relationships and looking to conduct their legit extramarital activities with some privacy. They could be in the process of divorce. They could be in a position where their spouse is actually okay with them going extramaritally for sex as long as they don't have to know about it. I really liked this comment: "Anyone saying that the AM users deserve what they get is guilty of a gross oversimplification. There are literally millions of unique, deeply human scenarios being played out here, and we can't hope to know them all, let alone be able to judge them."

[OrionGrad]

Also, finding someone's email address on the list doesn’t necessarily mean that person was a real user. Ashley Madison didn't verify email addresses for new accounts, so people could have signed up with their friends' addresses as jokes and it would still pop up in the data dump.

[rufflesanddots]

I think that's a really good point, SD. People use that site for all sorts of reasons. Sex and fidelity aren't black and white issues.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...an-infidelity/

This sums up my exact feelings about this.

Related: When will we tire of dragging everyone to the stockades in our society? Whether it's for having an AM account, or letting your kids walk to school unattended, or Cecil the Lion... god, I am just so tired of being in a world where everything is cause for some level of outrage. OVER IT.

I just feel tired. I can't be outraged over so many things. I'm too busy. And it's so easy to be outraged by something every five minutes since "being outraged" just means posting to FB and then moving on to the next thing.

[spotty_dog]

I just feel tired. I can't be outraged over so many things. I'm too busy. And it's so easy to be outraged by something every five minutes since "being outraged" just means posting to FB and then moving on to the next thing.

https://www.facebook.com/millennials...type=1&theater

We live in such a politically contentious and difficult time, but so few people my age are actually willing to do anything about it. People need to WAKE up and smell the ESPRESSO. That’s why I always share political articles on Facebook whenever I see them. In fact, I share so many that I don’t have time to actually read any of them—that’s how hard I’m working to make this world a better place. But some people I know hardly share political articles at all. It’s like they don't even care about the pending avocado shortage, or whatever is happening in Africa. I’m doing my part, but honestly I can only share so much.

[SoonerTexan]

I just don't trust that what was leaked was actually 100% what was IN their database. It's too easy for the hackers to add data (especially about famous people) and put the burden on them to prove otherwise

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

So, maybe this is a naive question but does anyone actually go on to have an affair from the AM site? I've read a lot of articles that suggest that the majority of people on the site are men seeking women and there are very few real women (that 95% of them are bots). So, is this just all a stupid unfulfilled fantasy for these idiots or is someone actually getting laid?

[Phoebe]

What outrages me is stories like Josh Duggar and men pursuing underaged sex or porn like Jared Fogle. Gross.


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[SoonerTexan]

Ashley Madison searchable database

I saw another article that claimed any CC info released is bogus because the company doesn't actually keep that data--which is totally believable if they use a 3rd party to process those transactions. Also there are "competing" data sets that claim to be the same breach. So really, I don't believe any of it until there is more proof.


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[scrub-jay]

I saw another article that claimed any CC info released is bogus because the company doesn't actually keep that data--which is totally believable if they use a 3rd party to process those transactions. Also there are "competing" data sets that claim to be the same breach. So really, I don't believe any of it until there is more proof.


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I'd wondered about that. But you never know...maybe the reporter saying that is in the list and are discrediting the whole thing! It's a conspiracy! (Haha, now I'm just having fun)