Ashley Madison hack victims receive blackmail letters

[Quetzal]

So, here we have it...

Blackmailers are reportedly sending letters to users of the Ashley Madison dating site, threatening to reveal their membership to friends and family unless they pay money.

The dating site for married people was hacked in the summer.

Security expert Graham Cluley blogged he had received "a steady stream of emails" from the site's users worried about the hack.

Mr Cluley advised anyone receiving such a letter to "ignore it".

Full article can be viewed here.

Food for thought:
I think we can all agree that the idea of using a website to have an affair is dishonest at best. That aside, do you have any sympathy for the users? Why or why not? For fun, if you were a user and this happened to you, what would you do?

Thoughts?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I only have so much sympathy to give so I'm pretty selective with it.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm short on sympathy generally speaking.
But for the blackmailers, I've only derision.
May they soon die an agonizing death.

 

[Quetzal]

I'm short on sympathy generally speaking.
But for the blackmailers, I've only derision.
May they soon die an agonizing death.

Derision for the people black mailing or for the people getting blackmailed? Sorry it's late.

 

[Revoltingest]

Derision for the people black mailing or for the people getting blackmailed? Sorry it's late.

Death to blackmailers & extortioners!
You may imagine me ululating now.

 

[Ingledsva]

So, here we have it...


Full article can be viewed here.

Food for thought:
I think we can all agree that the idea of using a website to have an affair is dishonest at best. That aside, do you have any sympathy for the users? Why or why not? For fun, if you were a user and this happened to you, what would you do?

Thoughts?

I think it is great that the adulterers are now put out there. Their wives and husbands can now divorce them, and get checked for HIV/AIDS.

With that said, - I hate to see hacking, and blackmailing is obviously illegal.

They should have just posted the names everywhere so the unknowing spouses could see the info and protect themselves.

*

 

[psychoslice]

I have no secrets, so it would do anything to me, but I wouldn't be there in the first place, just not my cup of tea.

 

[Quetzal]

I have no secrets, so it would do anything to me, but I wouldn't be there in the first place, just not my cup of tea.

Good on you.

 

[dust1n]

I'm short on sympathy generally speaking.
But for the blackmailers, I've only derision.
May they soon die an agonizing death.

I know who the blackmailers are, but I got a little money on the hush hush not to inform you who they are.

 

[Revoltingest]

I know who the blackmailers are, but I got a little money on the hush hush not to inform you who they are.

Accepting bribes is more tolerable.

 

[Wirey]

Who needs Ashley Madison? Just pick up some trollops you met on-line!

Ladies, how you doin'?

 

[Wirey]

I know who the blackmailers are, but I got a little money on the hush hush not to inform you who they are.

And I appreciate that.

 

[dust1n]

Accepting bribes is more tolerable.

Right, I don't go to people to make the deal, I wait for them to proposition me.

And I appreciate that.

Not a problem. Unfortunately I can't use these Canadian dollars anywhere around here! Not because they are Canadian, but they apparently still carry a strong stench that makes them undesirable.

 

[Revoltingest]

Right, I don't go to people to make the deal, I wait for them to proposition me.

And may they die their agonizing death after you receive payment.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I think it is great that the adulterers are now put out there. Their wives and husbands can now divorce them, and get checked for HIV/AIDS.

With that said, - I hate to see hacking, and blackmailing is obviously illegal.

They should have just posted the names everywhere so the unknowing spouses could see the info and protect themselves.

*

But that isn't the point of hacking--at least for these hackers--it's to leach off others in society. They could have just stolen credit card numbers and such, but apparently they didn't, so the next best thing is extortion...

Now, if Anonymous or Snowden had done this, they would have followed your tactic...

 

[dust1n]

And may they die their agonizing death after you receive payment.

Either that, or a spot in the will. I'll take either, depending on age.