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The Ashley Madison hack was actually pretty small

The breach is particularly delicate because the sole purpose of Ashley Madison is to help married p…

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Metadata in times of love, lust and technology reads a 'fling'

Regardless of judging someone on morality grounds, it is about understanding what it means to be si…

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It will take years to count the true human cost of the Ashley Madison hack

The fact that someone's name appears in the Ashley Madison database does not mean they have engaged…

Rob Price   


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After the devastating hack, these lawsuits are threatening to wipe Ashley Madison out altogether

The release has caused a huge commotion: Ashley Madison explicitly advertises itself as a service f…

Rob Price   


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The Ashley Madison hack is a goldmine for blackmailers that puts people in real danger

I'm not referring to risk of encouraging internet vigilantism, although that is another aspect to i…

Rob Price   


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A former Ashley Madison executive allegedly hacked a competing dating website

"Every week sees new hacks disclosed by companies large and small, and though this may now be a new…

Rob Price   


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People searching for the Ashley Madison data on Pirate Bay will also find ... an ad for Ashley Madison

Business Insider has contacted ExoClick to ask why the Ashley Madison campaign is running, and also…

Lara O'Reilly   


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The CEO of Ashley Madison has resigned

Biderman, who launched Ashley Madison in 2001, has stayed silent since the initial leaks, refusing …

Rob Price   


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Leaked emails from the Ashley Madison hack show the company seriously considered acquiring Grindr

"Leonard thinks it would be a good acquisition for us and I said I agreed but I did not think that …

Lucy England   


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People think Ashley Madison might be lying about adding millions of new members since the hack

In its most recent statement - on August 31, 2015 - the company said that "recent media reports pre…

Rob Price   


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Ashley Madison's parent company settles with FTC for $1.6 million over massive hack that exposed 32 million people

Segal and company president James Millership have been on the job for less than a year, after being…

Paul Szoldra   


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New data reveals the Ashley Madison hack actually caused people to use the cheating app more

Now new data from AVG suggests that the hack could have spurred more people who had installed the a…

Nathan McAlone   


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The Ashley Madison hackers alerted the company to the hack by taking over their computers and playing 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC

Hackers often use compromised computers to send messages to companies. The same thing happened with…

James Cook   


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This airline is offering Ashley Madison hacking victims travel vouchers so they can repair their marriages on holiday

So, jumping in on the fact that many marriages may be going through a severely rocky period, budget…

Lianna Brinded   


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Compromising details on thousands of military personnel have reportedly been leaked in the huge Ashley Madison hack

In response to release, Avid Life Media said that "this event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an…

Rob Price   


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17 of the weakest passwords used on Ashley Madison

Avast looked at the first million passwords in the Ashley Madison database to determine which ones …

Maya Kosoff   


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There's a strange new discrepancy in the saga of the former Ashley Madison exec accused of hacking a rival

Krebs reported that these emails included an exchange between Biderman and Bhatia from November 201…

Rob Price   


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There's an easy way to see if you've been affected by the Ashley Madison leak and previous massive hacks

Troy Hunt, the developer behind HaveIBeenPwned.com, has set the Ashley Madison data so that users w…

Rob Price   


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The blackmail of Ashley Madison users has already begun

As unpleasant as this financial blackmail may be, it's not the worst aspect of the hack. The dump a…

Rob Price   


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An Ashley Madison user received a terrifying blackmail letter

Yes, I know about your secret, that you paid for services from a company that specializes in facili…

Rob Price