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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Ashley Madison Adultery Website Customers Hit With Extortion Letters Sent To Their Wives And FTC Opens Investigation

 
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The Ashley Madison adultery website that was the subject of a massive hack in 2015, is under investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for fraud. The website promised customers they would be interacting with live females looking to have an affair. However, it has been discovered, many customers were talking to "female chatbots" (computers or women paid to converse with multiple customers).

The personal and identifying data of a number of Ashley Madison's customers was swiped by hackers, who have been engaging in additional illegal activity with the information. During the scandal that embarrassingly disclosed the names of a number of men and women cheating on their spouses, hackers began sending blackmail letters to said adulterers' spouses in extortion attempts. Recipients of the letters were ordered to pay $2,500. If they failed to do so items relating to their spouse's affair would be sent to family members and friends. The individuals hacking and blackmailing others need to be prosecuted.

The Ashley Madison website has been an unmitigated disaster of global proportions and it's just as well. Adultery is destructive and has broken many families, leaving lives scarred. People need not buy into the hype of adultery nor those who glamorize it. You pay a price for it. It's not worth it. Be faithful to your spouse.

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Fembots land Ashley Madison in hot water with the FTC 

Graham Cluley | July 5, 2016 9:44 am - Have you been flirting with a computer program behind your wife's back? "Life is short, have an affair" was the slogan of infidelity website Ashley Madison, which was famously hacked in 2015. What they didn't say was that you might be having a strictly online affair with a fake female profile, designed to trick you into entering your credit card details, under the misapprehension that you were chatting with a real woman rather than an algorithm.

Now Reuters reports that Ashley Madison's parent company Avid is being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after class action law suits were filed in the United States and Canada on behalf of customers whose details were exposed following the hack, and amid allegations that fake female profiles were used by the site to manipulate users:

An Ernst & Young report commissioned by Avid and shared with Reuters confirmed that Avid used computer programs, dubbed fembots, that impersonated real women, striking up conversations with paying male customers. Avid shut down the fake profiles in the United States, Canada and Australia in 2014, and by late 2015 in the rest of the world, but some U.S. users had message exchanges with foreign fembots until late in 2015, according to the report.


The FTC is investigating Ashley Madison

By Chris Welch on July 5, 2016 11:21 am - Nearly one year after a security breach resulted in the leak of a massive amount of customer data, Ashley Madison is now being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission. The company's new top executives — replacing those who exited after the tumultuous hack — confirmed the inquiry in an interview with Reuters. CEO Rob Segal isn't exactly sure what the FTC is focusing its probe on, but the leading theory is that it's tied to the website's use of "fembots" to artificially balance the male/female ratio. "That's a part of the ongoing process that we're going through," he told Reuters. "It's with the FTC right now."

A report commissioned by Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life Media confirmed that the infidelity website impersonated real women with the fembots, which continued to chat up some customers into 2015 — despite claims that the bogus profiles were mostly shut down in 2014.

The company's new leadership expressed "profound" sorrow over last year's breach, acknowledging that the infidelity website could have done more to improve its lackluster approach to security and better shield the personal details covering millions of users that flooded the dark web last August. Since then, some Ashley Madison customers have faced blackmail threats, and Avid Life Media has been hit with multiple class action lawsuits. The company recruited cyber security experts from Deloitte to come in and "reinvent" its security protocols to lessen the odds of a repeat incident...


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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are On The Rise In America Leading The CDC To Brand The Increase An Epidemic


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On the day Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen announced he is HIV positive, the CDC (Center For Disease Control) in America announced sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise in the United States, especially among gay men. However, if you are heterosexual, don't take that to mean you can be as promiscuous as you want and maintain your health. You are at risk as well if you engage in certain risky behaviors (promiscuity, sharing drug needles). People in America and around the world need to pay attention to their sexual health. Avoid poor and risky sexual choices.

The Judiciary Report has been stating for the past few years that STD rates are on the rise. Pop culture is apart of the problem, as promiscuity is being promoted in music, films, TV and online by Hollywood, entertainers and athletes. Websites like Ashley Madison, Grindr and Tinder promote promiscuity as well and it is driving up STD rates. People are being ridiculed on social networking for subscribing to the concept of a monogamous relationship. I've been on Twitter and Instagram and observed as people were mocked for wanting to or actually being in decent, faithful relationship.

Just because someone is in a faithful relationship, doesn't mean they are sexually boring or not having fun. Some of the most tame looking people on the outside and very wild behind closed doors. One of my friends and her husband appear very tame on the outside. However, they have a lot of kids and often make sexual jokes at dinner and parties that pretty much reveal they are freaky with each other. However, they are not promiscuous or unfaithful, yet still leading happy, healthy lives.

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CDC: US sexually transmitted disease epidemic worsening

Nov 17, 12:25 PM EST - CHICAGO (AP) -- A U.S. sexually transmitted diseases epidemic is increasing and the most common infection, chlamydia, has risen to record levels, government officials say. Reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis all increased in 2014. Chlamydia cases had dipped in 2013, but last year's total of more than 1.4 million - or 456 cases per 100,000 - was the highest number of annual cases of any condition ever reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The chlamydia rate was up almost 3 percent from 2013, the CDC reported Tuesday.

Sexually transmitted diseases are among more than 70 diseases that are reportable to the CDC, including measles, chickenpox and tuberculosis. Flu is reported differently, by hospitalizations. "America's worsening STD epidemic is a clear call for better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention," said the CDC's Dr. Jonathan Mermin.

Gonorrhea cases totaled 350,062, up 5 percent from 2013, and the most contagious forms of syphilis jumped 15 percent to 20,000. As in previous years, the syphilis increase was mainly in gay and bisexual men. Most gonorrhea and chlamydia infections were in 15- to 24-year-olds, an ongoing trend. Both can cause infertility in women but can be treated with antibiotics. They often have no symptoms, and while yearly screening is recommended for sexually active women younger than 25, many don't get tested and infections go untreated, the CDC said.

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Ashley Madison Site Numbers Are Fake Proving The Judiciary Report’s Previous Claims Correct


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On August 24, 2015, the Judiciary Report disputed claims that the Ashley Madison website has over 37,00,000 users (Ashley Madison Website Hack Exposing Adulterers Leads To New Divorce Cases Being Filed). A new report released this week reveals one company owned 40,000 fake female profiles on Ashley Madison and all shared the same 6 email addresses.

As a webmaster and blogger, what caught my eye a month ago is the fact the Ashley Madison site stated they have 1,000,000 unique email addresses of members (even those can be faked to a degree). That gave it away. To only have 1,000,000 unique email addresses means you likely have less than 1,000,000 members. People sometimes have multiple registrations on one site and this accounts for the inflated membership numbers of Ashley Madison.

As for the 40,000 fake female profiles, it was clearly done to entice men to the Ashley Madison site, by flooding it with attractive, available women (or so site users thought). However, such companies will license the images of aspiring foreign models and use them on fake profiles. These fake profiles lure men into thinking they would have adulterous relationships with attractive women they thought were actually interested in them, but were actually a few people paid to interact with many thousands.

Having stated that, some of the adulterous affairs on Ashley Madison were real, conducted by people looking for trouble in breaking their marriage vows. Some of the profiles were also created by male and female prostitutes and escorts. The whole thing is a sordid mess that created a significant amount of damage.

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EXCLUSIVE: How 40,000 'women' on Ashley Madison shared just six email addresses - all of them owned by the affairs website itself

Published: 14:06, 29 September 2015 | Updated: 21:30, 29 September 2015 - A data scientist has uncovered what he says is proof that Ashley Madison created tens of thousands of fake accounts to dupe members into paying for its services, in a scheme that would have almost doubled the website's revenue.

According to statistics seen by Daily Mail Online, 40,000 profiles were set up on the affair site using just six email addresses owned by the website's operators on two separate days. It follows claims in previous reports that the extra-marital dating network tried to hide around 100,000 of these so-called 'engager' profiles – sometimes referred to as Ashley Angels - from users, so they believed they were talking to real people.

If true, this means the real number of 'available' women was drastically reduced, while the website's monthly revenue was almost doubled by the 'engagers', as members have to pay to read their online messages...
 

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Ashley Madison Website Hack Exposing Adulterers Leads To New Divorce Cases Being Filed


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Recently, hackers stated they had hacked the Ashley Madison website, where users have registered and paid to meet other people willing to commit adultery. The hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, threatened to release the names, financial data and sexual fantasies of members of the Ashley Madison website. As a result, Ashley Madison and a related website Established Men, both owned by Avid Media Life, were under threat by the hackers for weeks.

On August 18, 2015, the personal and identifying data for members of the Ashley Madison website was illegally released to the public by hackers and the document dump contains 1,000,000 unique email addresses, names, credit card numbers and other related information. Despite the fact the Ashley Madison site boasts 37,000,000 members, some people maintained multiple accounts, which means the site likely has 1,000,000 unique users/members, not 37,000,000.

The hack and release of private data identifying site members has damaged many relationships. Divorce lawyers have reported an increase in calls regarding people who discovered their spouses are registered members of the Ashley Madison website. Celebrities have also been caught up in the scandal, as having used the website.

The premise of the Ashley Madison website, which is “Life is short. Have an affair” is a terrible one. So many people around the world have been hurt by a site that never should have been created in the first place, as it promotes adultery, which is harmful and hurtful. Now families are being destroyed as a result of the web site’s existence.

The FBI is currently investigating the hack, as it has violated scores of federal laws (not to mention, some of their names are probably on the site as adulterers). Avid Life Media is also going to be crushed by a flurry of lawsuit from all over the world. The Ashley Madison website was a bad idea that has and will further prove quite costly.

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Hackers dump data from cheating website Ashley Madison online: reports

Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:01pm EDT Related: U.S. - Hackers have followed through on a threat to release online a huge cache of data, including customer information, that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website AshleyMadison.com, several tech websites reported on Tuesday.

Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the posting. The data was posted onto the dark web, meaning it is only accessible using a specialized browser, although vast lists of hundreds of email addresses including many linked to corporations and universities sprouted up on other sites hours after the news broke.

The hackers, who call themselves The Impact Team, leaked snippets of the compromised data in July and threatened to publish names and salacious details of as many as 37 million customers unless Ashley Madison and EstablishedMen.com, another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down.


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3 People Commit Suicide After Being Exposed As Adulterers Due To The Hack On The Ashley Madison Website


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The invasive computer hack of the Ashley Madison website for adulterers has claimed three lives. It is being reported that San Antonio, Texas Police Captain Michael Gorhum and two unnamed Canadians have committed suicide after cruel, vile hackers exposed them and over a million other individuals as cheating on their spouses via the Ashley Madison website.

The felonious hackers going by the name the Impact Team hacked over 1,000,000 unique users and exposed their real names, credit card numbers and private sexual fantasies online for anyone to read. It resulted in people filing for divorce from their spouses and many ruined reputations. The hack was highly illegal and has attracted the attention of the FBI in America and authorities in Canada, who have open investigations into the matter. The Ashley Madison website is owned by Toronto based, Avid Life Media, run by Noel Biderman. The company also maintains an office in New York.

It is the Judiciary Report’s view that not only should said hackers face computer intrusion and identity theft charges, they should also be brought up on manslaughter charges for the deaths of the aforementioned three people. What you did is not cute or funny. It was sick. Choices have consequences. What goes around comes around. You don’t cost people their lives and get away with it. Make no mistake, it will come back to you and the same suffering you have inflicted on others will befall you.

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Police Captain and 2 Other People Reportedly Kill Themselves After Ashley Madison Hack

12:41 PM EDT, August 24, 2015 - Three people - including a Texas police chief - have reportedly taken their lives after their email addresses were part of the Ashley Madison hack last week. Hackers claimed they released details of more than 30 million people who had accounts with the website, which spouses use to find affairs.

Captain Michael Gorhum, who had worked for the San Antonio Police Department, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last Thursday, KSAT reported. His official email address was among those released in the hack, according to the IB Times. INSIDE EDITION has confirmed that an email address in his name is listed...


Toronto police report two suicides associated with Ashley Madison hack

Monday 24 August 2015 16.23 BST Last modified on Monday 24 August 2015 18.34 BST - Unconfirmed reports suggest that two people in Toronto have killed themselves over the Ashley Madison hack, local police said in a briefing providing details about the beginning of the leak.

“As of this morning, we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides that are associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customers’ profiles,” Toronto police service staff superintendent Bryce Evans said at a press conference on Monday. Evans said the nature of the dating site for married people was “of no interest to us as the investigative teams”.

Security analyst Brian Krebs said last week he feared exactly that outcome. “There’s a very real chance that people are going to overreact. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw people taking their lives because of this, and obviously piling on with ridicule and trying to out people is not gonna help the situation,” Krebs, who first reported the hack, said on Wednesday.

The hack, in which some 33m profiles from the service were published online, has been the focus of extortion and phishing attempts. Among them are “hack checking” websites that compile the emails of the curious entered into them and then send malicious software to those emails. Evans also said that a new scam, claiming to erase names from the Ashley Madison database in order to preserve users’ privacy, had sprung up in the few days since the hack.

“By clicking on these links, you are exposing your computer to adware, spyware, malware and viruses,” Evans said. “Multiple sites have now downloaded [the Ashley Madison user database] and are present. Nobody is going to be able to erase that information. There are confirmed cases of people trying to extort Ashley Madison clients.”

On 12 July, Evans told reporters, workers at the Toronto-based company logged into their computers and were greeted with “a threatening message” read over AC/DC’s Thunderstruck by hackers (or hacker) the Impact Team. The hack was made public on 20 July by the Impact Team alongside a note demanding Ashley Madison cease operation; on 20 August, Impact Team released all the information onto a deep-web site with a message that began “Time’s up!” Information from Ashley Madison’s sister site, Established Men, has not been released.

“When reporting these events to the police, Avid Life Media advised that the suspects had already made good on the threat by releasing the information on two Ashley Madison clients, one from Mississauga, Ontario, and the other from Brockton, Massachusetts, through the internet, which happened on July the 19th,” Evans said.

Avid Life Media, the company behind Ashley Madison, has offered a $500,000 Canadian dollar ($380,000 US) reward for information leading to the arrest of the hackers.

• In the US and Canada, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 08457 90 90 90. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here.


Ashley Madison: 'Suicides' over website hack

7 hours ago- Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, according to police in Canada.

The police in Toronto gave no further information about the deaths. Ashley Madison's Canadian parent company Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they added.

Details of more than 33m accounts were stolen from the website, which offers users the chance to have an affair. Addressing the hackers, known as The Impact Team, acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans of the Toronto police said: "I want to make it very clear to you your actions are illegal and we will not be tolerating them. This is your wake-up call."

Police are seeking information from members of the wider hacker community that might aid their investigation. The breach was "very sophisticated", said Detective Menard from the technological crime unit of Toronto Police. Mr Evans confirmed that credit card data was included in the original data dump released by The Impact Team...

"This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world and is very unique on its own in that it exposed tens of millions of people's personal information," he added.

Police have set up a Twitter account, @AMCaseTPS, and hashtag, #AMCaseTPS, in a bid to gather information about the hack from members of the public.


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Congress Needs To Pass A New Federal Law Regarding Hackers Whose Conduct Lead To Injury Or Death


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In light of three people killing themselves after being exposed with 1,000,000 others as registrants on the adulterous website, Ashley Madison, legislation needs to be created regarding hackers conduct in this regard. There needs to be a law in America that states if a person or persons’ acts of computer hacking leads to the injury or death of others, said perpetrator(s) are eligible for 20-years to life in prison. In cases where hacks lead to mass murder, the law should state said hacker(s) are eligible for the death penalty.

There are mentally deranged, lunatic hackers actively hacking into government systems responsible for the safety and well being of citizens. There are lunatic, loser hackers who are trying to hack into airplanes. There are foul, vile hackers hacking into people’s computer based cars and trying to cause injury and accidents. This criminal behavior is completely unacceptable and totally evil.

I’ve seen certain hackers in action and have come to the realization they are mentally deranged. Something has gone wrong in how their brains are wired to think hacking is acceptable human conduct. I’ve experienced hackers breaking into protected computers I own that do work on AIDS and cancer pharmaceutical patents, with said hackers sending nasty viruses to wipe out research data on the connecting external drives and flash drives.

I’ve also seen said hackers behave like mentally deranged idiots planting viruses and Trojans designed to slow down productivity on computers doing scientific work on AIDS and cancer patents. What kind of animals and savages do something like that, trying to slow down and damage work meant to save sick people’s lives. Think about that, as it takes an extraordinary level of evil and depravity to do such a wicked thing.

I’ve also experienced hacking regarding a Hollywood cult hacker, Randy Vaughn, who is an electrical engineer, threatening to burn me alive in a house fire and targeting the power company in Florida (FPL) via hacking to send powerful electrical surges into my home. It could have caused a house fire, as computers and appliances began giving off smoke and sparks, catching on fire, in a sick hacker technique known as “electronic harassment.” The case almost ended up in court but FPL settled it.

I’ve also seen said hacker target the batteries of my laptop in a practice security experts attach to hackers, who are trying to cause a computer’s battery to overheat, burn out the computer’s hardware. Computer security experts have stated that in some cases this type of hack caused laptop batteries to explode, causing physical injury to innocent people who were targeted.

There are hackers who have broken into people's computers and email accounts and posted private nude photos, leading to innocent people committing suicide, due to public embarrassment. This is regrettable and I encourage people not to take their lives. You didn't deserve it and you can survive it.

These hackers are wimps, who become online bullies. When you take a look at court cases concerning hackers, 99% of the time they are wimpy, socially awkward, dysfunctional people, who wouldn’t win a fight in real life, so they attack people online. They sit behind computers picking on others in a cowardly way via hacking, because it makes them feel powerful. However, they are not heroes. They are villains bringing disgrace on their families, especially when they are caught.

How is any of the aforementioned criminal behavior by hackers acceptable human conduct. What greater good is there in causing the injury and deaths of innocent people. You’d have to be a sick, demonic loser to think any of those misdeeds are good. You’re screwed up in the head to be engaging in such criminality, behaving like public nuisances harming humanity with sick deeds worthy of imprisonment to the full extent the law provides.

They can whine, complain and rationalize it any way they’d like, but if at the end of the day your conduct causes loss of life, you are murderers and should be imprisoned as such. Stop being such a scourge and blight on humanity. Turn yourselves in and pay your debt to society for the harm you’ve caused people whose lives never should have been touched by your madness. People are dead because of you!

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Cheating Website Ashley Madison Hacked And More Members Will Be Exposed As Adulterers


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The Ashley Madison website, owned by Avid Life Media Inc., disgracefully boasted, "Life is short. Have an affair." The pay site encouraged the public to join for a fee and have an affair anonymously. Not anymore. The website was the target of hackers, who compromised the site, swiping the names and personal data of its paying members.  Some of the names of the adulterers on the site have already been released in the public domain.

The hackers have issued threats stating they will publicly release more names of the people who have been cheating on their spouses. This will damage and destroy many marriages. It will also lead to massive lawsuits against the Ashley Madison site. The mere premise of the site alone was distasteful. Infidelity and adultery is not something to revel in nor is it to be celebrated publicly or privately. Similar sites and social networking pages encourage people to cheat or be promiscuous, having their minds swimming in filth all day, inevitably leads to trouble for married and single people. It creates negative habits and a harmful view of sex that benefits no one.

Marriage vows are serious. People should honor them. When adultery strikes marriages it creates so much pain, heartache and personal devastation. Children end up the products of divorce when infidelity destroys their parents' marriage. Cheating brings spiritual and emotional trouble to people's lives that has a price. The Ashley Madison website has done damage in society and with unethical, hurtful, harmful behavior comes consequences. However, the Judiciary Report does not condone or promote hacking.

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Cheating website Ashley Madison hacked, personal info posted

Jul. 20, 2015 11:20 AM EDT - FILE - NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says it was hacked and that the personal information of some of its users was posted online. In addition, the person or persons behind the attack are threatening to release all of the site's personal information — including its members' sexual fantasies and financial information — if the company doesn't take Ashley Madison offline, according to a prominent security blog.

Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc. says it has had the hackers' posts — which included snippets of personal information — taken down and has hired a technology security firm. The company and law enforcement agencies are investigating. The breach was first reported late Sunday by Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity, a website that focuses on cybersecurity. Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair," purports to have 37 million members.

The hacking follows the May breach of the dating website Adult FriendFinder, which involved the theft of names, email addresses and information about the sexual orientation or habits of up to 4 million of that site's members. According to Krebs, the hacker or hackers, in the Ashley Madison breach identified as "The Impact Team," posted large caches of data from the Ashley Madison site, claiming to have compromised user databases, financial records and other information...
 
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