Hackers leak Ashley Madison user data

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I would strongly advise against putting any email addresses in the linked to searchable page. I wouldn’t give mine or other’s to some random website.
 
exnihilo said:
I would strongly advise against putting any email addresses in the linked to searchable page. I wouldn’t give mine or other’s to some random website.
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The guy who created the site I linked to is legit. He created a similar site to help people identify if their account was part of the 2013 Adobe hack. Allowing those users to take precautions, like changing their passwords for all other sites. So not sure you can just prop it up as some sort of email skimming site…But hey, folks can decide for themselves. 🤷

Story from the Guardian regarding his work during the Adobe leak
 
The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the social networking site, touted as the premier site for married individuals seeking partners for affairs.
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32 million people looking to cheat on their spouse…
 
ProdglArchitect said:
32 million people looking to cheat on their spouse…
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I wonder how disappointed these guys will be when they not only get busted trying to cheat but when they realize that there aren’t really that many women on the site. The hackers claim that 95% of the users are men and most of the “females” are fake accounts. Not sure if it’s true but it sounds about right.
 
Well, 32 million isn’t a reliable figure at all. Are they 32 million different people? Or would one person have multiple profiles?
And are they all looking to cheat? Or just trolling around as a goof with no intentions of interacting with someone real?
 
on_the_hill said:
Well, 32 million isn’t a reliable figure at all. Are they 32 million different people? Or would one person have multiple profiles?
And are they all looking to cheat? Or just trolling around as a goof with no intentions of interacting with someone real?
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Most of the user accounts are probably shills. If there is a woman who is being openly sexual online (like on AM) they are either bots, men, or prostitutes. The men who signed up for an AM account where being duped.
 
If it’s searchable only by email address, I doubt that’s going to be very damaging. Most cheaters are going to use a throw-away gmail or hotmail account, I would imagine, not their main email.

If they really want to to be searchable so that people can find out if their spouse is cheating, they need to publish names, addresses, and credit card information (all blocked but last 4) since most spouses share a credit card account and would recognize the last four digits.
 
Burt_Macklin said:
Most of the user accounts are probably shills. If there is a woman who is being openly sexual online (like on AM) they are either bots, men, or prostitutes. The men who signed up for an AM account where being duped.
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Bingo.

Also, I would guess only a sliver of the men who actually were interested in cheating would use their real email addresses or names. The only men getting caught are going to be the dumbest of the dumb.

Then again, the wife of one of my high school buddies’ used her real name in several hook-up sites, chatted it up with a few. then left the bookmarks on her phone and laptop. I might be overestimating the intelligence of the average person.
 
SWolf said:
Bingo.

Also, I would guess only a sliver of the men who actually were interested in cheating would use their real email addresses or names. The only men getting caught are going to be the dumbest of the dumb.
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They may not have used a real email address but the AM data also includes GPS data collected from their mobile app and credit card information. There are bound to be some men get busted by this.
 
Burt_Macklin said:
They may not have used a real email address but the AM data also includes GPS data collected from their mobile app and credit card information. There are bound to be some men get busted by this.
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Thanks for the clarification.

I would think they would turn off GPS and use a fake credit card, but “technologically illiterate” is a much larger umbrella than chronically stupid.
 
Obama administration emails found in Ashley Madison data dump
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Hundreds of email addresses from the Obama White House and key federal agencies appear to have been uncovered in a leaked list of clients who use Ashley Madison, the website that encourages people to sign up for a chance to cheat on their spouse.
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Hackers broke into the cheating website, and late Tuesday, Wired.com reported that information on 32 million users was posted on a “dark” website used by well-known hackers. The data includes much of the personal information of the alleged users, and one link made available breaks the data down into how many clients come from various government websites.
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According to that link, thousands of members of the U.S. military appear to be clients of Ashley Madison. But there also appear to be hundreds of users from other key agencies, including the White House.
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washingtonexaminer.com/obama-administration-emails-found-in-ashley-madison-data-dump/article/2570457?custom_click=rss
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The 32 million appear not to just be in the UK and Canada, to say they have some from whitehouse.gov is baffling, I know email addresses can be spoofed so what is up with this?? 32 million is probably world wide, I’d never really heard of this website.
 
AKDee said:
If it’s searchable only by email address, I doubt that’s going to be very damaging. Most cheaters are going to use a throw-away gmail or hotmail account, I would imagine, not their main email.

If they really want to to be searchable so that people can find out if their spouse is cheating, they need to publish names, addresses, and credit card information (all but last 4) since most spouses share a credit card account and would recognize the last four digits.
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I think that’s just how the guy that put the database up set it up. The full file is available on torrent sites (I saw a link on facebook) and the dark web. I personally don’t know how to get on the dark web and would have no idea what to do with all that data if I chose to download it haha.

They did find thousands of .gov and .mil emails so those may very well be real.
 
J_Peterson said:
I think that’s just how the guy that put the database up set it up. The full file is available on torrent sites (I saw a link on facebook) and the dark web. I personally don’t know how to get on the dark web and would have no idea what to do with all that data if I chose to download it haha.

They did find thousands of .gov and .mil emails so those may very well be real.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t have any idea how to access the dark web or whatever either. But I think a site that had that information where people could look would get a lot of hits- an advertisers bonanza!
 
J_Peterson said:
They did find thousands of .gov and .mil emails so those may very well be real.
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Some will be genuine but I wager many more will be spoofs or jokes. I really doubt that Tony Blair, picking just one example, was actually dumb enough to use his .gov.uk email address to sign up for an account.
 
on_the_hill said:
Well, 32 million isn’t a reliable figure at all. Are they 32 million different people? Or would one person have multiple profiles?
And are they all looking to cheat? Or just trolling around as a goof with no intentions of interacting with someone real?
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Not to mention I’m sure there have been trolls who have setup profiles of other people as a cruel joke or to mess with people.

I wonder too about people who may have registered email addresses that may have previously been used on such sites. This I know happens because on one of my many throw away email accounts I registered years ago, someone had disowned the address, I just happened to use the same address, and started getting mail about Facebook (Which I don’t use). As it turned out, the guy who owned it previously still had his Facebook account attached to it and I was getting a number of, well, “interesting” things in my inbox. It was a challenge trying to explain what was happening to the guy because he wasn’t very tech savvy.

[QUOTESome will be genuine but I wager many more will be spoofs or jokes. I really doubt that Tony Blair, picking just one example, was actually dumb enough to use his .gov.uk email address to sign up for an account.
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Pretty much. You have to use discretion and ask yourself if you really think that said individual would really make an account and do that, or if it’s a joke or spoof. I pray that no one innocent is affected by someone else’s cruel idea of a joke.
 
Burt_Macklin said:
Some will be genuine but I wager many more will be spoofs or jokes. I really doubt that Tony Blair, picking just one example, was actually dumb enough to use his .gov.uk email address to sign up for an account.
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that is for sure!
 
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