Woe be to you if you ever decided to sign up with infamous cheating website Ashley Madison. Security researcher Graham Cluley is reporting that some Ashley Madison users are receiving blackmail threats via plain old snail mail that are threatening to expose their affairs unless they meet certain demands.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a funny story about the hack of infamous cheating website Ashley Madison, but it looks like this dry spell is at an end. Courthouse News Service reports that a former Ashley Madison user named David Poyet has filed a class action suit against Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life Media for …
This summer’s Ashley Madison hack has remained ingrained in the tech news cycle for a good three months now. From the site’s former CTO threatening to sue a security researcher to the fact that the site employed bots masquerading as women, the fallout from the site’s security breach has spawned no shortage of bizarre stories. And now …
Ashley Madison users who are annoyed that they wasted money chatting with robots have no reason to be upset — it turns out the company told them all about it in its terms of service. The Guardian points out that before signing up with Ashley Madison, users had to agree that they understood that not all …
The fallout emanating from the Ashley Madison data hack just can’t seem to end. Three weeks after hackers released upwards of 25 gigabytes of stolen company files, including identifiable customer information, former Ashley Madison CTO Raja Bhatia is now suing security researcher Brian Krebs for libel. Krebs, in case you’re unfamiliar, brought some old and private emails involving Bhatia to …
It seems cheating website Ashley Madison created an army of fembots to flirt with new male users and trick them into thinking that there were hordes of women ready to jump into bed with them the minute they signed up for an account. Gizmodo’s Annalee Newitz has taken an in-depth look at some leaked information revealed …
Try to act surprised: Many Ashley Madison users were wide open to being hacked even before the entire site had its data stolen. Security firm Avast has been combing through some of the leaked Ashley Madison profile passwords and has found that many of them are stupidly common, including such old favorites as “123456” and “password.”
While many revelations surrounding the Ashley Madison hack are indeed funny — the fact that many users apparently spent their time flirting with fembots comes to mind — others are not. In fact, millions of people who used the website are now being subjected to blackmail, public scorn and other unpleasant things that are making …
Ashley Madison is claiming that millions of real women regularly use its website to help them have affairs. But if that’s the case, why do so many of the website’s robo-users disproportionately send messages to male users? Gizmodo’s Annalee Newitz has done some more detective work on the leaked Ashley Madison data and has discovered that …
We’ve seen a lot of reporting on the Ashley Madison hack lately that suggests the vast majority of female profiles on the website are completely fake. Now Inside Edition has scored an interview with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, who was paid to be Ashley Madison’s spokesmodel back in 2010 and who is now tossing bombshell allegations against …
