Hackers to Ashley Madison website: Pay up or we reveal the name of all your cheaters!

[MessiahDecoy123]

Is this a bluff or is karma real?

 

[KevanG]

I say both. They get the money from those stupid enough to cheat on a website and don't bother actually releasing the names unless they get bored.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Why does this remind me of Death Note?

Should be called Divorce Note.

 

[Marvolo]

This could get some people killed by their angry spouse.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I'm not all that judgmental when it comes to cheating, but it seems extremely sleazy to me for there to be a website and business which advertises on TV and billboards to be built around it.

 

[gohei_]

The article I read said the hackers only wanted the site shut down, not to get money from them.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^
if that the case it is lame, at least asking a ransom is good reason.

 

[BrollySupersj]

There's seriously a website that helps people cheat on their spouses?

 

[KevanG]

There's a lot of websites like that. This one is just the most popular.

 

[Erzengel]

Yes. Part of the, if it feels right, then it's okay part of our society.

However, I'm far from a prude or self righteous because I understand that there might be a small select few who may be stuck in a marriage because of children or financial reasons and possibly their spouse has changed from the person they married. I do feel for those.

But I do disagree with the whole advertising aspect and showing on tv, billboards, etc.

 

[Legendver2]

It's a good season for divorce lawyers and therapists

 

[Fallen Angel]

I say good on the hackers for doing this.

 

[Evelisse]

I'm ok with this one.

 

[Teelie]

The article I read said the hackers only wanted the site shut down, not to get money from them.

They did want this site and another, Established Men, to both be taken offline but no mention of a ransom for the database.

I don't know why they aren't demanding more but it could be anything from someone with some moral or ethical reasoning or maybe they used it and were mislead about their information being deleted and now this is their revenge. Or maybe they knew someone who used it and found out they don't actually delete profiles even when people pay them $20 to do so. Maybe they had a spouse who used it to cheat.

Who knows really. All I know is I have no sympathy for the "victims" who used the website to cheat.

There's seriously a website that helps people cheat on their spouses?

There's a lot of websites like that. This one is just the most popular.

This is (soon to be was?) also the most brazen in advertising it. After this I suspect there will be some repurcussions and low key advertising before someone else jumps in to exploit the vacancy.

 

[James]

I think something a lot of people are forgetting is that the consequences could potentially be much more than some furious spouses and a bunch of divorce lawyers cheering with glee. The morality of cheating notwithstanding, if the names of the men and women using this site are made public there's every chance their children could see it, their employers, their friends, etc.

The consequences of cheating on your partner, I think, should be settled between the two people in the relationship -maybe they can work it out. It's not really anyone else's business. There's also the strong possibility many of the site's members are single, yet their information will be released too. They won't have a wife or husband to get mad at them, but there's still a whole world of judgmental people ready to offer up their opinion.

 

[Marvolo]

I think something a lot of people are forgetting is that the consequences could potentially be much more than some furious spouses and a bunch of divorce lawyers cheering with glee. The morality of cheating notwithstanding, if the names of the men and women using this site are made public there's every chance their children could see it, their employers, their friends, etc.

The consequences of cheating on your partner, I think, should be settled between the two people in the relationship -maybe they can work it out. It's not really anyone else's business. There's also the strong possibility many of the site's members are single, yet their information will be released too. They won't have a wife or husband to get mad at them, but there's still a whole world of judgmental people ready to offer up their opinion.

Exactly.

 

[Warhammer]

James said it all. I don't know how anyone can argue against that.

 

[KevanG]

I imagine that if they don't get money or even if they do then they'd release it anyway just for lulz at the ****storm that ensues.

 

[Thundercrack85]

It's a free country. But when you put yourself in such a damn compromising situation in such an offensive manner, it's kind of hard for me to feel any sympathy.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I imagine that if they don't get money or even if they do then they'd release it anyway just for lulz at the ****storm that ensues.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Possibly some women too.

 

[terry78]

Slippery slope, man. Yeah, it's funny that hackers hacked this site, but if they got on here and did that ****, it wouldn't be as funny. I don't like that such a secure site was vulnerable regardless of what its purpose is. When they hack Playstation Network you mother****ers are out for blood.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Slippery slope, man. Yeah, it's funny that hackers hacked this site, but if they got on here and did that ****, it wouldn't be as funny. I don't like that such a secure site was vulnerable regardless of what its purpose is. When they hack Playstation Network you mother****ers are out for blood.

Except playing video games isn't cheating on your spouse. No one is going to be shocked to find out that I play video games.

 

[KevanG]

Maybe if you were Amish...

 

[Grievous]

Privacy being violated isn't right and if the names got out it could mess some lives up big time. But the truth comes out anyway at some point in a lot of cases. Also I can't say I have sympathy for the people who are members of sites like that.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Aren't the single people on the site potential homewreckers.

Why should anyone pity them for being outed?