How many of you are sweating bullets over the Ashley Madison hack?

[abenjami]

and even if that weren't true, if a spouse was looking they could hire a PI. You can be sure that PIs and divorce lawyers are going to be all over this data...

PI's sure.  They will be all over it for people who pay them to search for someone's data on there.

Divorce lawyers?  I doubt it.  Contacting someone out of the blue to inform them their spouse was on Ashley Madison and then offering your services is pretty much a blatant violation of the state bar rules in every state.  Also, I don't think fault really matters anymore when it comes to divorce no matter what state you live in.

[Starkiller]

PI's sure.  They will be all over it for people who pay them to search for someone's data on there.

Divorce lawyers?  I doubt it.  Contacting someone out of the blue to inform them their spouse was on Ashley Madison and then offering your services is pretty much a blatant violation of the state bar rules in every state.  Also, I don't think fault really matters anymore when it comes to divorce no matter what state you live in.

no, but for anyone who files for divorce, you can be sure their lawyer would at least check the list. Hell, if you can show that your spouse was signed up for AshleyMadison.com, that's some serious divorce trial ammo...

[OILERMAN]

I heard there were people putting innocent victims on the list and even if you're on the list there is a good chance it was done by a 3rd party!

[Starkiller]

"The executive director of the Louisiana GOP spent $176 on Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking affairs, but he says he wasn’t using it to cheat.

Jason Doré acknowledged that his name is on the list released by hackers this week, according to The Times-Picayune. But he said he used the account strictly for “opposition research.”

 

“As the state’s leading opposition research firm, our law office routinely searches public records, online databases and websites of all types to provide clients with comprehensive reports,” he told the New Orleans newspaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sure... that sounds believable...

[Jamalisms]

TF is the dark web?

[Stranger]

TF is the dark web?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-the-dark-web_55d48c50e4b0ab468d9f17d7

A place you want to stay far away from lest you wish to be scarred for life. 

It's not all entirely bad, but that bad is really bad. 

[NashvilleNinja]

A marriage is a lifetime commitment and a man is only as good as his word. The only way I would condone cheating on your spouse is if both parties knew it and both parties accepted it and agreed about that arrangement. Then it wouldn't be cheating. But for those people I ask what's the point of being married? If your marriage is that bad, get a divorce and then screw around as much as you want.

Exactly. But that's part of the cheating, having your cake and eating it too. It's part of the allure, doing something "naughty". I'm betting a majority of those people's marriages aren't really that bad. They're just self-centered fucktwats who think the world owes them a good dicking just because.

[NashvilleNinja]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-the-dark-web_55d48c50e4b0ab468d9f17d7

A place you want to stay far away from lest you wish to be scarred for life. 

It's not all entirely bad, but that bad is really bad.

More on the Dark Knet:

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/

[abenjami]

no, but for anyone who files for divorce, you can be sure their lawyer would at least check the list. Hell, if you can show that your spouse was signed up for AshleyMadison.com, that's some serious divorce trial ammo...

Only if your state considers fault and it actually means something.  There are a lot of states where divorce is no fault by statute.  And my understanding is that fault doesn't really change much in states where fault is still a basis for divorce (i.e you don't get more money, etc.).

[abenjami]

"The executive director of the Louisiana GOP spent $176 on Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking affairs, but he says he wasn’t using it to cheat.

Jason Doré acknowledged that his name is on the list released by hackers this week, according to The Times-Picayune. But he said he used the account strictly for “opposition research.”

 

“As the state’s leading opposition research firm, our law office routinely searches public records, online databases and websites of all types to provide clients with comprehensive reports,” he told the New Orleans newspaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sure... that sounds believable...

This is actually very believable.  I have done this myself before, but not on Ashley Madison.  Normally I use a fake name and an email account I set up for this purpose.  But if you have to pay for access to the website, well you gotta use your real name to match the credit card...

[Denali]

I heard there were people putting innocent victims on the list and even if you're on the list there is a good chance it was done by a 3rd party!

I thought about that, but the problem would be the email address used for account setup verification.  A 3rd party would not be able to create an account using someone else's email address because the account would not be created until a response email is sent from the email received on that email account.  Not only would the 3rd party not be able to respond to that email because it is someone else's email account, but that other person would know that someone tried to sign them up!  

So if the hacked records show a registered account with someone's email address, a 3rd party couldn't have done that. 

It's the email address that's the smoking gun.

(NOTE: @oldschool pointed out that what I wrote above is in fact incorrect.  See posts below)

 

News has come out that has identified the email addresses for some of the accounts:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2015/08/136-harvard-idiots-used-their-work-email-on-ashley-madison/

1. 136 Harvard email addresses

2. 2,223 government employees used their work address

3. 13,078 members of the military used their .mil account to cheat or attempt to cheat…or something

4. 218 Vatican accounts

5. Only a seemingly restrained 21 Yale email accounts were registered

6. 137 accounts registered to Boeing employees were found

7. 79 Amazon email accounts

8. 35 Raytheon accounts (military contractor)

9. 175 accounts from IBM

10. 76 accounts from Bank of America

11. 8 from JP Morgan

[oldschool]

I thought about that, but the problem would be the email address used for account setup verification.  A 3rd party would not be able to create an account using someone else's email address because the account would not be created until a response email is sent from the email received on that email account.  Not only would the 3rd party not be able to respond to that email because it is someone else's email account, but that other person would know that someone tried to sign them up!  

So if the hacked records show a registered account with someone's email address, a 3rd party couldn't have done that. 

It's the email address that's the smoking gun.

As such, news has come out that has identified the email addresses for some of the accounts:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2015/08/136-harvard-idiots-used-their-work-email-on-ashley-madison/

People were actually STUPID enough to use their work email addresses!!!! I mean holy crap!  Like WOW STUPID!!!

1. 136 Harvard email addresses

2. 2,223 government employees used their work address

3. 13,078 members of the military used their .mil account to cheat or attempt to cheat…or something

4. 218 Vatican accounts

5. Only a seemingly restrained 21 Yale email accounts were registered

6. 137 accounts registered to Boeing employees were found

7. 79 Amazon email accounts

8. 35 Raytheon accounts (military contractor)

9. 175 accounts from IBM

10. 76 accounts from Bank of America

11. 8 from JP Morgan

you missed the part where it was reported the site doesn't have email verification enabled. All you have to know is someone's email to register it. You can then disable email notifications on the profile. Lastly a lot of the military and govt addresses are public domain so they are easy to obtain and use for this purpose.

[Denali]

you missed the part where it was reported the site doesn't have email verification enabled. All you have to know is someone's email to register it. You can then disable email notifications on the profile. Lastly a lot of the military and govt addresses are public domain so they are easy to obtain and use for this purpose.

"It’s important to note that Ashley Madison’s sign-up process does not require verification of an email address to set up an account, so legitimate addresses might have been hijacked and used by some members of the site. One email in the data dump, for example, appears to belong to former UK Prime Minister (Tony Blair)."

OOPSSSSS. 

I stand corrected!!

I was wrong about that.  Sorry.

But having no email verification is totally messed up!!!

That may be part of the reason why they are being sued for 578 million dollars.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ashley-madison-faces-dollar578m-canadian-class-action-lawsuit/ar-BBlZx9A