Even major American banks use second-rate security.Ī had it even worse. Few websites practice good security standards. Using your real name or payment information is a hazard. This hack proves that you need to exercise extreme caution if you’re going to share your deepest, darkest secrets. The listed sexual fantasies range from master/slave relationships to cross dressing and exhibitionism. For example, the database shows if a person was listed as a married “male seeking male” with a “someone I can teach” sexual fantasy looking for a “boy next door.” Or an “attached female seeking male” with a “spanking” fantasy seeking “a Don Juan.” This information is incredibly revealing. And in total, the data makes it easy to hunt someone down. Some users were smart enough to use fake names. The Ashley Madison hack includes customer names, credit card data, physical addresses and sexual preferences. This is what Tim Cook was talking about earlier this year when he said we don’t live in a post-privacy world. Their addresses are most likely legitimate, because they were tied to the credit card they used to pay for the service, according to one computer researcher.
In Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the punishment is death.Ī quick search of a small subset of Ashley Madison users listed two in the United Arab Emirates. What about people who used Ashley Madison to engage in gay affairs? The website’s users were worldwide, and there are 79 countries where homosexuality is illegal. It’s a prosecutable offense that can land you a year in confinement and a dishonorable discharge. Adultery does, in fact, violate Uniform Code of Military Justice. military, evident because they used email addresses that end in the. Many of the cheaters exposed in this hack serve in the U.S. CNNMoney verified this by plugging in email addresses of users it has independently verified. But at least one tool, which searches by email address, returns accurate results. It’s difficult to verify the accuracy of these searching tools. Someone has even created a custom Google Map that displays some of users’ addresses registered with the website. And they’re traded on file-sharing platforms (which also requires special software and clicking on dubious downloads).īut now anyone can check if his or her spouse was cheating - just by filling out a form. Stolen files are posted on the Dark Web (which requires a special web browser called Tor). Usually, hacked data is difficult to reach or sort through. But that site is experiencing some lag time due to high traffic. Just plug in a name or email address, and you’ll find out if someone who signed up for the service.Ĭheck to see if an e-mail address you recognise is part of the database on the web: – or –
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