Ashley Madison - my martial affair exposure - I blame the hackers (impact team) for my divorce

[5t3IIa]

Wired article http://www.wired.com/2015/08/happened-hackers-posted-stolen-ashley-madison-data/

HACKERS WHO STOLE sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear to have made good on their threat to post the data online.

A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser.

The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the social networking site, touted as the premier site for married individuals seeking partners for affairs. Seven years worth of credit card and other payment transaction details are also part of the dump, going back to 2007.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Manter]

Do people *really* use their work email addresses?!

 

[teqniq]

Looks that way. Twits.

 

[superfly101]

And we're off!

Do people *really* use their work email addresses?!

Look at the address under it

 

[moochedit]

apparently the site didn't validate peoples email addresses though so a lot could be fakes.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/18/ashley_madison_download/

 

[treelover]

What on earth were civil servants, council employees, etc doing using their work emails?, (many seem genuine)

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/49904267/uk-government-ashley-madison-accounts-part-one

 

[moochedit]

What on earth were civil servants, council employees, etc doing using their work emails?

I guess it was so their partner couldn't read the emails. Obviously they didn't think of just creating a hotmail address for it!

 

[Dan U]

What on earth were civil servants, council employees, etc doing using their work emails?, (many seem genuine)

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/49904267/uk-government-ashley-madison-accounts-part-one

Well I know who one of those people is, although he works for a different council now

#awkward

 

[Dan U]

Actually scrub that he shares the same name as someone at a neighbouring council, just did a Google.

It's a minefield

 

[Manter]

Yeah, some of those can't be right (I have worked for one of those organisations and that isn't how the email addresses are made up) but one could very well be real as it is. Iyswim.

 

[Belushi]

What a shitty thing to do.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

since a political party is not a government department / local authority, it does not have a .gov.uk domain.

labour is .org.uk

sorry.

and hotmail.gov.uk is likely to be bollocks as well for similar reasons.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Tony Blair never used email when he was PM, not once. Also as puddytat says there is no Labour.gov.uk. Based on that I would assume many are fakes, which is not to say that some people would not use their work addresses

 

[weltweit]

Indeed, these people were planning to cheat, why would they use their own email address when it was not necessary.

Their credit card however is another matter, it seems very unlikely they would be able to tweak the name on their credit cards. Was that detail in the data dumped onto the web?

 

[Manter]

Which begs a different question- who the fuck would sign up to a dating site as a fake tony Blair?!

 

[Citizen66]

Persons will have put up comedy email addresses, probably the hackers themselves whilst staking it out or retrospectively when releasing the details.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Do people *really* use their work email addresses?!

Never underestimate the stupidity of people - it's amazing what some people think is acceptable behaviour.

 

[joustmaster]

I downloaded this. I might have some time this afternoon to have a look through it.
I am more interested in the hashes. But might post up some stats.

 

[dylanredefined]

Which begs a different question- who the fuck would sign up to a dating site as a fake tony Blair?!

Someone bored on a night shift with access to a computer.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Which begs a different question- who the fuck would sign up to a dating site as a fake tony Blair?!

I never got a single reply!

 

[Plumdaff]

Apparently fake Jeremy Corbyn was inundated with requests...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Apparently fake Jeremy Corbyn was inundated with requests...

...despite other fake members of the Labour party repeatedly calling him "undateable".

 

[Gromit]

Indeed, these people were planning to cheat, why would they use their own email address when it was not necessary.

Their credit card however is another matter, it seems very unlikely they would be able to tweak the name on their credit cards. Was that detail in the data dumped onto the web?

Some people are nosey. You want to look on a site to see what these cheats look like and maybe double check your spouse ain't on there.

Do you use a real email?
Or do you type a false email? If only because you don't want spam.

I've typed in any old series of characters an @ sign more jiggerish and a dot com just to see into some sites that required an email but i didn't really want to engage with. e.g. [email protected]
Kinder than signing someone else up to spam by using a genuine looking but not your's email..

I'm assuming like a lot of sites you only needed to provide valid credit details if you wanted to contact someone, do more than just browse.

 

[Teaboy]

A lot of work email addresses are readily available on websites so very easy for a harvesting exercise. As other have said having your email on there means nothing, contact and credit card details may be a bit harder to explain away.

 

[Lord Camomile]

contact and credit card details may be a bit harder to explain away.

"I was hacked"

 

[Teaboy]

"I was hacked"

Ah yes. Convinces everyone that does, yessiiirrreee, nothing to see here.

 

[Manter]

I never got a single reply!

Can you imagine if there was a subset of people who got the horn over Tone. <<shudder>>

 

[Citizen66]

Was Murdoch's now ex missus on there too?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Can you imagine if there was a subset of people who got the horn over Tone. <<shudder>>

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