Cheating Website Ashley Madison Hacked

[theboss]

lambosagogo said:

Prince Philip said:

Am I the only one who thinks this is a MASSIVE publicity stunt?

Probably not. But it's difficult to see how AM can benefit from this publicity - customer details leaked, IPO probably canned and so on. I doubt they're doing much new business at the moment.

Impact Team benefit from the publicity - anyone they target next is likely to listen a bit more carefully.

I suspect AM is toast, personally. I don't see how their business is viable especially considering the legal defences they are now going to have to mount. The notion this was a self-inflicted publicity stunt couldn't be further from the truth - its their worst nightmare.

[Asterix]

eldar said:

raftom said:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/08/23/uk-isla...

Excuses 1, 3, 4b, 6, 11 and 19. Could do better.

Ha, what a spoon.

[theboss]

200bhp said:

So who else has downloaded the full dump in order to check on their neighbours??

I did a search on my suburb and those surrounding it and was disappointed to find only a couple of names on there - They were both men. I also searched my old home town in the UK (I now live in Australia) and there weren't many hits there either.

I really was expecting to find more given the massive media fuss about the whole thing. I even searched surnames of myself and my colleagues and found nothing (Although I no know that my surname forms part of the name of a town in America).

Before anyone sends me a request to search for them, I've now deleted it as a colleague pointed out it's probably illegal to have stolen data on my computer.

One of my former neighbours had created his account with an alias matching his private plate

We should run a search for the phrase "powerfully built"

[jshell]

200bhp said:

So who else has downloaded the full dump in order to check on their neighbours??

I haven't, I live in a true Police state, but what format does the full dump come in? I see that people are searching om domain names to mine email and bank of America is prolific, but a lot of employers are gonna be checking this to see if company email is being used and those folks are 'toast'!

[Nikolai Petroff]

Can we now admit monogamy was a bs lie invented by sick religious wackos and move on?

[glazbagun]

I'm not sure how this site worked, but if it's like other dating websites then surely all I'd need to don't check if my girlfriend was cheating on me was create a bogus profile of my own, throw in my postcode and see who was available. So is the dump really that big a deal?

[iphonedyou]

Prince Philip said:

Am I the only one who thinks this is a MASSIVE publicity stunt?

Edited by Prince Philip on Monday 24th August 12:19

No. But they're all pretty daft, too.

This has blown their IPO and left them open to damage suits viz data protection breaches. I can't imagine a single right thinking person would ever wish to use them again. Or begin to, in future.

[eldar]

glazbagun said:

I'm not sure how this site worked, but if it's like other dating websites then surely all I'd need to don't check if my girlfriend was cheating on me was create a bogus profile of my own, throw in my postcode and see who was available. So is the dump really that big a deal?

Allegedly has email, credit card, address, date/time and contact/partner details.

Two people have, again allegedly, killed themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044506

[theboss]

eldar said:

Allegedly has email, credit card, address, date/time and contact/partner details.

Two people have, again allegedly, killed themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044506

And out of millions I'm sure there will be more.

Imagine whats going to happen if/when the authorities catch the hacker(s) and make their personal details public!

[YankeePorker]

The data includes IP addresses, so some smarty journalist here has cross searched the data for IP addresses used by the US government agencies. This has thus given them the names of government employees accessing the AM site from work. Cue major discussions on security risks and the possibility of blackmail.

One employee challenged on his membership has made a statement to the effect that "He just wanted to look and had no intention of doing anything....."

Funny to pay a monthly subscription just to look!

[Pesty]

The ones who put pictures on their profiles with not a lot on will not be trying to sue anybody I assume?

[Twilkes]

YankeePorker said:

The data includes IP addresses, so some smarty journalist here has cross searched the data for IP addresses used by the US government agencies. This has thus given them the names of government employees accessing the AM site from work. Cue major discussions on security risks and the possibility of blackmail.

If people are accessing a website at work and/or receiving emails from said websites to their work accounts, surely their companies would already know? There was a news story recently about the digigrumble that parliamentary computers had tried to access.

[200bhp]

jshell said:

I haven't, I live in a true Police state, but what format does the full dump come in? I see that people are searching om domain names to mine email and bank of America is prolific, but a lot of employers are gonna be checking this to see if company email is being used and those folks are 'toast'!

The data is in a series of CSV files, one for each month. The one with addresses in is related to card transactions. The files are huge so you cant easily open them in excel. However, you can use a simple command prompt "find" to trawl through it looking for a keyword and export matching lines to a text file.

So if you wanted to search for users in Birmingham, you'd just do a search for "Birmingham" and out pops a list of addresses and email addresses for users who have Birmingham in their address.

I diddnt know how to do it but theres a thread on Reddit with simple instructions for non-geeks.

[Otispunkmeyer]

200bhp said:

jshell said:

I haven't, I live in a true Police state, but what format does the full dump come in? I see that people are searching om domain names to mine email and bank of America is prolific, but a lot of employers are gonna be checking this to see if company email is being used and those folks are 'toast'!

The data is in a series of CSV files, one for each month. The one with addresses in is related to card transactions. The files are huge so you cant easily open them in excel. However, you can use a simple command prompt "find" to trawl through it looking for a keyword and export matching lines to a text file.

So if you wanted to search for users in Birmingham, you'd just do a search for "Birmingham" and out pops a list of addresses and email addresses for users who have Birmingham in their address.

I diddnt know how to do it but theres a thread on Reddit with simple instructions for non-geeks.

Sounds like something you could do every easy in MS PowerShell.

To be fair I am not even sure how good PowerShell is but all I know is I can use it to strip headers off 1000's of text files and do stuff like remove tabs, blanks etc and replace with commas.

[youngsyr]

Data analyst concludes that over 99% of the 5 million female profiles on the site are fakes, probably created by Ashley Madison employees:

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the...

[jshell]

youngsyr said:

Data analyst concludes that over 99% of the 5 million female profiles on the site are fakes, probably created by Ashley Madison employees:

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the...

[Soov535]

jshell said:

youngsyr said:

Data analyst concludes that over 99% of the 5 million female profiles on the site are fakes, probably created by Ashley Madison employees:

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the...

Ever feel like you've been swindled?

[CAPP0]

The Register are reporting that almost every site containing (or purporting to) the AM data will in fact download something mal-y onto your device. Does that include the one posted on here a few pages back?

[hornetrider]

Soov535 said:

jshell said:

youngsyr said:

Data analyst concludes that over 99% of the 5 million female profiles on the site are fakes, probably created by Ashley Madison employees:

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the...

Ever feel like you've been swindled?

Fools and their money!

[Blib]

hornetrider said:

Soov535 said:

jshell said:

youngsyr said:

Data analyst concludes that over 99% of the 5 million female profiles on the site are fakes, probably created by Ashley Madison employees:

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the...

Ever feel like you've been swindled?

Fools and their money!

It would be a brave or a foolish man who would sue the company.