Ashley Madison hacked data has been officially released

[PureX]

It's a site where men and women can go to hook up for extramarital affairs. The first time I saw the commercial I thought, "That hand basket is going to get more crowded than the Hindenburg."

Thanks.

Why should he bother when we're here?

Yes, I was thinking that other folks here probably didn't know, too, so I figured I'd just ask on the thread so we'd all see the answer.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure there was something about a "user name" connected to that Madison story. :shocked:

Yep, it does seem to be an excessively anonymous fake name!

 

[jgarden]

Ashley Madison hacked data has been officially released

Just another example that anything you post on the internet may come back to haunt you at a later date.

 

[Tinark]

Uh.... lets keep this real..... anyone can make an account and provide any address they wanted to.

My guess is out of the million accounts that were hacked 75% are probably faked.

How do they provide a fake billing address? The charge on their credit card won't go through if the address doesn't match. Of course, there's always the possibility that the hackers added their own fake data to the dump.

 

[Quetzal]

How do they provide a fake billing address? The charge on their credit card won't go through if the address doesn't match. Of course, there's always the possibility that the hackers added their own fake data to the dump.

They don't. The only thing I can see them doing is paying with a pre-paid visa card or something like that. Those do not require the billing addresses to match.

 

[jeffblue101]

It doest look like much affairs happen anyway, more like preying on certain men's fantasies.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articl...n-hack-8-questions-and-slightly-fewer-answers

Was Ashley Madison even in the business of promoting adultery? At Fusion, Kash Hill quotes Rob Graham of Errata Security saying "It’s about 28 million men to 5 million women in the account list,but essentially all men for credit card transactions"That's a massive skew compared to other dating sites. Now, maybe Ashley Madison was running a sort of perpetual Ladies' Night so that the women never had to pay. But even so, the disparity between the number of men and women suggests that Ashley Madison's core product was not actually extramarital liaisons, but fantasies -- subscribing to the site let you hope that you might get to have an affair. Which is yet another reason that the business model was done the day their data was hacked. What a buzzkill. Straight guys aren't going to fantasize about joining a site full of dudes.

What does the disparity in the genders say about men and women? The old saw that women want relationships while men want casual sex is frequently disputed by feminists, who point out that women have long been penalized for seeming to want casual sex. But here's a site that specializes in attachment-free sex that, theoretically, no one will know about. And it appears that, to a first approximation, its only actual customers were men.

Economists like to differentiate between "signaling" -- presenting an image that you think will get you what you want -- and "revealed preference," when you act to get what you actually want. Married women seem to be revealing a strong preference for not having affairs with men they meet over the Internet.

Now, that's not to say that women don't want to have affairs, or even that they don't have affairs. Women may simply find it easier to find a low-risk partner. But that itself tells us something, which is either that many more men than women want to cheat (or at least see what their options are for doing so), or that more men than women are willing to have no-strings affairs with married people. This may be innate, or it may be culturally conditioned, but either way, it seems to be pretty powerful. It's definitely not evidence for feminists who wanted to show equality in casual sex drive.
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[CabinetMaker]

I don't know, Sherman...I though her chocolate covered Ho-Hos beat the pants off Hostess. :chew:

Pricey though.

This was far more amusing to me than it may have been intended. Great laugh too start the day!

 

[Town Heretic]

This was far more amusing to me than it may have been intended.

But really, what are the odds?

Great laugh too start the day!

Then my work here is done.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Ashley Madison hacked data has been officially released

Just another example that anything you post on the internet may your immoral actions that you think are hidden from others will come back to haunt you at a later date.

Fixed that for ya.

 

[Quetzal]

It doest look like much affairs happen anyway, more like preying on certain men's fantasies.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articl...n-hack-8-questions-and-slightly-fewer-answers

What a strange concept. Even more impressive is they got that many men to sign up and pay for it.

 

[TomO]

I don't know, Sherman...I though her chocolate covered Ho-Hos beat the pants off Hostess. :chew:

Pricey though.

Raspberry Zingers are the bomb! :TomO:

Regarding the O.P....Don't care lain:

 

[HisServant]

Prime use of identity theft.

 

[Nathon Detroit]

How do they provide a fake billing address? The charge on their credit card won't go through if the address doesn't match. Of course, there's always the possibility that the hackers added their own fake data to the dump.

How do they hack stuff like this in the first place?

I don't know because I'm not a hacker but this sure seems like a convenient way to smear somebody don't you think?

And who knows.... maybe it's true, heck I don't know. I'm just saying in this instance I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt especially since it's Gawker doing the finger-pointing.

 

[Quetzal]

More data, graphs, etc.

http://dadaviz.com/s/ashley-madison-revealed

 

[Rusha]

http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/notes-on-the-ashley-madison-hack

I honestly dont know what to think of this news story. A part of me is upset that a hacker would ruin and violate sereval million people's private lives, but another part feels that these adulters deserved to be publicly shamed for lying and cheating on their spouse. If I was cheated on I would definitely want to know just not so publicly. What are your thoughts on this leak?

I have a hard time mustering up sympathy for anyone who is outed for committing adultery.

 

[Nathon Detroit]

More data, graphs, etc.

http://dadaviz.com/s/ashley-madison-revealed

34% of all accounts are fake. Hmmmm..... :think:

 

[Nathon Detroit]

I have a hard time mustering up sympathy for anyone who is outed for committing adultery.

I agree.

But I feel even worse for a person (possibly Josh Dugger) who is outed when it's possible his account was faked.

Again.... It sounds like I'm a big Dugger fan or something and I'm not. I'm just saying it seems very likely that people would attempt to smear folks like him and this would be a convenient way of doing it.

 

[PureX]

I agree.

But I feel even worse for a person (possibly Josh Dugger) who is outed when it's possible his account was faked.

Again.... It sounds like I'm a big Dugger fan or something and I'm not. I'm just saying it seems very likely that people would attempt to smear folks like him and this would be a convenient way of doing it.

Also, having an account doesn't mean he committed adultery. Maybe he was just curious.

 

[Angel4Truth]

How do they provide a fake billing address? The charge on their credit card won't go through if the address doesn't match. Of course, there's always the possibility that the hackers added their own fake data to the dump.

By using a visa gift card.

 

[Angel4Truth]

They don't. The only thing I can see them doing is paying with a pre-paid visa card or something like that. Those do not require the billing addresses to match.

Correct.

 

[Angel4Truth]

I agree.

But I feel even worse for a person (possibly Josh Dugger) who is outed when it's possible his account was faked.

Again.... It sounds like I'm a big Dugger fan or something and I'm not. I'm just saying it seems very likely that people would attempt to smear folks like him and this would be a convenient way of doing it.

He admitted it unless this news agency is lying :

Josh Duggar Confesses to Cheating, ‘Porn Addiction': ‘I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever’

Letter posted of statement in response by Josh Duggar:

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.

I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.

I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.

As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.

I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.

Josh Duggar