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Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by tenpoundhammer »

The possibilities are endless, I imagine someone will make this data easily searchable and journalists will be digging through to found anyone of notoriety that was dumb enough to sign up with their own names and credit cards etc. This hack could create a ton of news stories, including record divorce rates.

I'm curious as to how the ashley madison admins are killing these links? DMCA takedowns? What's the mechanism for this?

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by cft »

tenpoundhammer wrote: post #2

The possibilities are endless, I imagine someone will make this data easily searchable and journalists will be digging through to found anyone of notoriety that was dumb enough to sign up with their own names and credit cards etc. This hack could create a ton of news stories, including record divorce rates. I'm curious as to how the ashley madison admins are killing these links? DMCA takedowns? What's the mechanism f…

You can actually submit any bogus name and address when you pay with a credit card- in most cases, the payment will go through if the zip and CVV match. Most carders know this, but the honest costomers do not...

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by steve19 »

tenpoundhammer wrote: post #2

The possibilities are endless, I imagine someone will make this data easily searchable and journalists will be digging through to found anyone of notoriety that was dumb enough to sign up with their own names and credit cards etc. This hack could create a ton of news stories, including record divorce rates. I'm curious as to how the ashley madison admins are killing these links? DMCA takedowns? What's the mechanism f…

... or worse, use somebody else's name and create a realistic profile (do these sites have profiles?) that makes it look like the person you are impersonating.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by cdcarter »

cft wrote: post #3
tenpoundhammer wrote: post #2

The possibilities are endless, I imagine someone will make this data easily searchable and journalists will be digging through to found anyone of notoriety that was dumb enough to sign up with their own names and credit cards etc. This hack could create a ton of news stories, including record divorce rates. I'm curious as to how the ashley madison admins are killing these links? DMCA takedowns? What's the mechanism f…

You can actually submit any bogus name and address when you pay with a credit card- in most cases, the payment will go through if the zip and CVV match. Most carders know this, but the honest costomers do not...

You don't always need the CVV. A lot of processors will be fine with card number, expiry, zipcode, and the street number of your address. Sometimes I try giving wrong information to see what will happen. Usually, it works.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by drdeca »

ocfx wrote: post #6

Good. I hope the company goes bankrupt. People murder other people and kill themselves over shit like this.

While I'm not sure that I agree,

I /certainly/ am not sure that I disagree!

I think the question of whether the hacking done was ethical is probably nontrivial.

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