Cheating website hacked and customer data released.

[T.J.]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/1...BN20150819

Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison on Tuesday, a dramatic move likely to rattle users' attitude towards the Internet.

Hackers dumped a big cache of data containing millions of email addresses for U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations late on Tuesday, the latest cyber attack to raise concerns about internet security and data protection.

 

I'm curious to get peoples moral take on something like this. Even though I try to be a philosophical social libertarian which says that people's private lives should be private, there is a very base part of me that loves this. If you are too chickenshit to talk to your spouse about wanting to sleep with other people, then fuck off. Anybody stupid enough to sign up for something like this, esspecially high ranking government officials, deserves what they get.

I have to agree with those who said all parties are scumbags and I find it hard to feel sympathetic for any of them. The only victims here IMO are the people who were cheated on.

I remember seeing one of these cheating sites and just said to myself, "Really? There's a site for this? Why would you join? Heaven forbid your wife is browsing through your bookmarks or something and finds the site." Assuming said couple shares a computer, anyway, but ya never know. Wife/Husband could need to use their computer because their own is busted or something, and then BAM!