Hacker's Ashley Madison Data Dump Threatens Marriages, Reputations

[Purveyor]

Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet.

Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about Internet security and data protection.

The hacker attack has been a big blow to Toronto-based assignation website firm Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison and has indefinitely postponed the adultery site's IPO plans. But many professions stand to benefit from the unfolding saga, from lawyers to therapists to cyber security firms.

Prominent divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said the release is the best thing to happen to his profession since the seventh Commandment forbade adultery in the Bible.

"I've never had anything like this before," he said.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/19/us-ashleymadison-cybersecurity-idUSKCN0QN2BN20150819

[malaise]

1. Well so did the cops catching the Subway guy

His wife filed for an annulment- no the behavior of the persons involved has led to mashing up marriages. Truth will out

[Politicalboi]

2. I wonder if any from The Clown Car

Are in there.

[NightWatcher]

3. Who is more at fault, the cheater or the one who exposes?

If not for the cheater, then none of it would matter.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. That question is always there.

Here on the left, we think the problem was Americans torturing and killing prisoners, and peeing on corpses, while the NSA spies on everyday citizens. On the right, they think the problem is the people EXPOSING that behaviour, letting us know about it.

[6chars]

4. Not good to take joy in others' suffering

Judge not, lest ye be judged, know what I'm sayin?

[mercuryblues]

6. Does

Josh Dugger's name on the list alter your opinion? Just a little bit?

[6chars]

7. I am sure

There will be a lot more names we know. Some are surely people we currently admire.