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LoginIn , a group of hackers breached the discreet dating website Ashley Madison and threatened to expose the data. Launched in , Ashley Madison is an online dating service for married people. Moreover, the website openly embraced its role as a platform for people seeking extramarital affairs. Most of its users were either married or in a relationship. In the initial years of its launch, the website garnered a lot of popularity.
It was launched in and marketed to people who are married or people in relationships who are looking for affairs. Have an affair. Ashley Madison has been criticised for being a "business built on the back of broken hearts", and use of guerrilla marketing for advertising. The breach also revealed that the company exaggerated the size of its userbase by "creating fake accounts, or not stopping others from creating fake accounts".
On July 13, , Evan Back walked through the door of his Toronto office and immediately sensed something was wrong. Normally people would be milling around, drinking coffee, getting ready to tackle the Monday ahead.
In July , an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison , a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker s copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying information if Ashley Madison would not immediately shut down. As evidence of the seriousness of the threat, the personal information of more than 2, users was initially released. The company initially denied that its records were insecure, but it continued to operate. Because of the site's lack of adequate security and practice of not deleting users' personal information from its database — including real names, home addresses, search history and credit card transaction records — many users feared being publicly shamed.
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6/28/2024
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