The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked • Hacker News Board

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by heimatau » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:16 AM UTC

jpatokal wrote: post #27

iaw wrote: post #19

Krebs has since updated his post with confirmation from three independent Ashley Madison users confirming their data was in the leak. It looks like this was the real deal.

Interestingly, the three people say the last digits of their credit card numbers were included in the dump, while the Ashley Madison CTO says they don't keep credit card numbers, full stop.

Yeah, I noticed they said that too. I look forward to hearing more about the hack. AM says it wouldn't be through them. Makes me wonder about where the hackers got in at.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by cft » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:21 AM UTC

inversionOf wrote: post #20

[deleted] wrote: post #17

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I grabbed the data and found an old peer in there, and he listed both our office and his home address in profiles, which he would never have done for anything else. He also used an email address on a domain he controls that he created just for that, and accessed it (there are IP addresses) from a remote corporate location while on a trip there (I actually was on the same trip with him). This is just one record, but t…

Where is the download link please?

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by wodenokoto » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:21 AM UTC

I have signed up with a throwaway email and user name and yet I feel really uncomfortable that I receive updates from them as though nothing has happened.

No "please change your password" or anything.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by mintplant » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:23 AM UTC

inversionOf wrote: post #28

caseysoftware wrote: post #26

That's the only way this can go. The company has three options: - Confirm that this (or any of the dumps) is the data. This almost definitely opens them up to lawsuits coming from a bunch of people who have little to lose. I say "little to lose" because a non-trivial number will be on the verge of divorce about to lose half of everything. - Keep their mouths shut and confirm/deny nothing. The press will continue on t…

Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, an…

I don't understand why you're being downvoted here. Sites like you describe will undoubtedly pop up around this dataset.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by inversionOf » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:25 AM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #34

inversionOf wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, an…

I don't understand why you're being downvoted here. Sites like you describe will undoubtedly pop up around this dataset.

Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built search apps, we'll have infographics galore about the population set of users.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by ougachooga » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:28 AM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #25

This is my first time to learn about Ashley Madison. The business model actually disgusts me. I get the whole open relationship, but people who are actually married or in a committed relationship are using this site is just ridiculous. Either you break off with your current relationship, or stay loyal. BTW, those "secure" logo are just so useless I see them as sign of weakness rather than confidence. Anyone can place…

I'm curious why so many are downvoting. Do you disagree that the business model is disgusting, or just think it's inappropriate to say so about a peer's startup?

I'm very curious to know what HNers think about this.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by duncan_bayne » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:30 AM UTC

There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by enlightenedfool » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:31 AM UTC

inversionOf wrote: post #28

caseysoftware wrote: post #26

That's the only way this can go. The company has three options: - Confirm that this (or any of the dumps) is the data. This almost definitely opens them up to lawsuits coming from a bunch of people who have little to lose. I say "little to lose" because a non-trivial number will be on the verge of divorce about to lose half of everything. - Keep their mouths shut and confirm/deny nothing. The press will continue on t…

Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, an…

It could make a great data set for machine learning.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by caseysoftware » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:33 AM UTC

cft wrote: post #32

inversionOf wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grabbed the data and found an old peer in there, and he listed both our office and his home address in profiles, which he would never have done for anything else. He also used an email address on a domain he controls that he created just for that, and accessed it (there are IP addresses) from a remote corporate location while on a trip there (I actually was on the same trip with him). This is just one record, but t…

Where is the download link please?

I've seen it posted once here already. The comment was nuked. Check on Reddit's Hacking section.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Post by duncan_bayne » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:35 AM UTC

duncan_bayne wrote: post #37

There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.

Repost from a different, and now I think abandoned, thread:

I'm curious - I keep getting downvoted whenever I criticise Ashley Madison on the grounds of morality. Why is this?

This isn't a whinge about downvoting (if I didn't want to get downvoted I wouldn't keep posting about A-M), but a genuine inquiry into the reasons.

Is it that people see discussions of morality as off-topic for HN? Do people disagree with my moral judgement of A-M? Or disagree with moral judgement in general?