Ashley Madison offers $378K reward to find hacker

[brooklynite]

Source: CNBC

After having gigabytes upon gigabytes of confidential customer information stolen and posted online, cheating website AshleyMadison.com isn't rolling over.

The Canada-based company—whose tagline is "Life is short. Have an affair"—is offering $378,000 for information leading to the prosecution of the individual or group involved, first reported by Krebs on Security.

"In the very best interest of our customers, who have been affected by this malicious act, we are firmly committed to fully assisting these law enforcement and investigative authorities, without reserve," said Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/ashley-madison-offers-378k-reward-to-find-hacker.html

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Apparently that's C$ 500,000

[RiverNoord]

1. I was a divorce lawyer for 3 years.

Not feeling one whit of sympathy for anyone exposed by hacking on the site...

[Gore1FL]

2. "You pays your money and you takes your chances," to be sure.

I sympathize on the plight of their spouses, however. They are twice-victimized now with the unwanted publicity.

[Marie Marie]

3. Reminds me of a quote I read somewhere..

"I can't believe how people think they can do dirt and not get dirty". My only sympathy go to the spouses.

[PersonNumber503602]

4. I wonder who made it so the passwords were Pass1234

I also wonder how long AM will be around.