Remember last month when hackers gleefully announced that they had the names, emails, and street addresses of millions of Ashley Madison users? On Tuesday, the hackers made good on their threat to leak the information of all those users—a staggering 32 million of them—and uploaded a massive data dump to the Dark Web, accessible to anyone with the Tor browser. (Evidently, many of the female user profiles on the website are computer-generated; the vast majority of Ashley Madison’s clientele are men.) Brazenly, the hackers are pointing the finger at the users—“cheating dirtbags [who] deserve no such discretion”—and the website itself—who “promised secrecy but didn’t deliver.” Check out Wired for more details.
Although cheating is generally—rightfully—frowned upon in civilized society, hacking and releasing personal data is a violation of both Internet and privacy laws. Whether for divorce or defense, all parties involved had better get themselves a good lawyer.
