"policies to punish tax evasion, environmental violations and minor crimes like littering. In July 2015, a group hacked the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial dating website marketed as helping people have extramarital affairs. In August 2015, over 30 million user account details, including names and email addresses were released publicly. A variety of security researchers and Internet privacy activists debated the ethics of the release. Clinical psychologists argued that dealing with an affair in a particularly public way increases the hurt for spouses and children. Carolyn Gregoire argued ""[s]ocial media has created an aggressive culture of public shaming"
"Ashley Madison data breach In July 2015, a group calling itself ""The Impact Team"" stole the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The group copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personally identifying information if Ashley Madison would not immediately shut down. On 18 and 20 August, the group leaked more than 25 gigabytes of company data, including user details. Because of the site's policy of not deleting users' personal information – including real names, home addresses, search history and credit card transaction records –"
"employees as well as anyone who had undergone a government background check. It is believed the hack was perpetrated by Chinese hackers. In July 2015, a hacker group known as ""The Impact Team"" successfully breached the extramarital relationship website Ashley Madison, created by Avid Life Media. The group claimed that they had taken not only company data but user data as well. After the breach, The Impact Team dumped emails from the company's CEO, to prove their point, and threatened to dump customer data unless the website was taken down permanently."" When Avid Life Media did not take the site"
"the most common. Due to a design error where passwords were hashed with both bcrypt and MD5, 11 million passwords were eventually cracked. Claire Brownell suggested that the Turing test could be possibly passed by the women-imitating chatbots that fooled millions of men into buying special accounts. Ashley Madison data breach In July 2015, a group calling itself ""The Impact Team"" stole the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The group copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personally identifying information if Ashley Madison would"
"in the data breach of 2015 which revealed that less than 1% of the female users were ever active on the site, the 5 million accounts held by women ""show so little activity that they might as well not be there"". In the summer of 2015, the Ashley Madison website was hacked and sensitive information of millions users was released publicly. Biderman was accused by the hackers of failing to delete accounts from the website even after customers paid to have accounts removed. Biderman's emails were also released. In the wake of the hack, on August 28, 2015 the Ashley"
"the functionality to easily add future breaches as soon as they were made public: Since its launch, the primary development focus of HIBP has been to add new data breaches as quickly as possible after they are leaked to the public. In July 2015, online dating service Ashley Madison, known for encouraging users to have an extramarital affair, suffered a data breach, and the identities of more than 30 million users of the service were leaked to the public. The data breach received wide media coverage, presumably due to the large number of impacted users and the perceived shame of"
"having an affair. According to Hunt, the breach's publicity resulted in a 57,000% increase in traffic to HIBP. Following this breach, Hunt added functionality to HIBP by which breaches considered ""sensitive"" would not be publicly searchable, and would only be revealed to subscribers of the email notification system. This functionality was enabled for the Ashley Madison data, as well as for data from other potentially scandalous sites, such as Adult FriendFinder. In October 2015, Hunt was contacted by an anonymous source who provided him with a dump of 13.5 million users' email addresses and plaintext passwords, claiming it came from"
"from their spouse to explore affair opportunities. Illicit Encounters IllicitEncounters.com is a UK online dating service for married people. The site was founded in 2003, by entrepreneur Stephen Lines. Currently, it is the UK's largest extramarital dating website, with a reported 900,000 members. The website was founded by businessman Stephen Lines. In an interview with the ""Daily Express"" in April 2010, the wife of current CEO Adam Scott, Kim Scott, described how the former owner decided to rebrand his failing singles site. “Lines ... came up with the idea after he and his wife hosted a dinner party and one"
"the family website in which he admitted to watching pornography on the Internet and being unfaithful to his wife. According to the material obtained in the data breach, Duggar's credit card was used to pay $986.76 for two Ashley Madison subscriptions starting in February 2013, which were cancelled in May 2015 shortly after the molestation allegations surfaced. The statement contained the following: ""I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the Internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to"
"had used malware to generate explicit pop-up ads for the service on computers without user consent. Adult FriendFinder's acquisition by Penthouse was the subject of a 2007 lawsuit by Broadstream Capital Partners, a merchant bank that assists with mergers, alleging Penthouse breached a 2006 contract by purchasing the company without obtaining Broadstream's consent, a claim Penthouse denies. The suit was settled for $15 million in 2011. In May 2015, Adult FriendFinder was hacked by users associated with the Hell forums, with the hackers stealing personal information about as many as four million of the site's users. On November 13, 2016,"
"Illicit Encounters IllicitEncounters.com is a UK online dating service for married people. The site was founded in 2003, by entrepreneur Stephen Lines. Currently, it is the UK's largest extramarital dating website, with a reported 900,000 members. The website was founded by businessman Stephen Lines. In an interview with the ""Daily Express"" in April 2010, the wife of current CEO Adam Scott, Kim Scott, described how the former owner decided to rebrand his failing singles site. “Lines ... came up with the idea after he and his wife hosted a dinner party and one friend, after too much wine, confessed the"
"providers showed that almost none of the passwords were valid. During the summer of 2015, Russian hackers breached 97 websites mostly made up of dating sites. Ashely Madison, the most prominent of these sites, had sensitive company information, emails, internal documents, and details of 30 million users stolen in this breach. Holden’s firm were the ones who discovered the stolen information which they found on a server the hackers were using. In the summer of 2014, JPMorgan Chase was attacked by a gang of Russian hackers who stole information compromising 76 million households and seven million small businesses. Holden and"
"MeetWomenOnline concluded: ""We were more than disappointed in this scam dating website. A better word for it would be mortified!"". A blog was created for the exclusive purpose of such complaints. Sitejabber published 41 reviews (as of 12 May 2015), mostly scathing, detailing aggressively misleading marketing practices, hidden charges, unwanted subscription into recurring expensive payment, charges applied to dormant accounts, obstructions to termination of contract and profile, and so forth. Other sites, such as DatingScams.co.uk and ScamBook, report similar findings. In particular, The pricing of Premium Memberships are regular causes for complaint. The membership is, in fact, a subscription, which"
"O'Reilly Factor"" referenced DontDateHimGirl as a ""hate site"". While it was announced in July 2010 that the profiles of the men on the site would be removed, as of June 2011, the database could still be accessed through the site's ""posts"" directory which are linked extensively on other websites. However, on an unknown date consequent to this, the database was removed as promised and as of February 2016 is not accessible. DontDateHimGirl.com DontDateHimGirl.com is a website launched in July 2005. It originally hosted anonymously submitted relationship stories about cheating partners. In 2010, the website said it was removing the ""database"
"many users feared being publicly shamed. The Impact Team announced the attack on 15 July 2015 and threatened to expose the identities of Ashley Madison's users if its parent company, Avid Life Media, did not shut down Ashley Madison and its sister site, ""Established Men"". On 20 July 2015, the website put up three statements under its ""Media"" section addressing the breach. The website's normally busy Twitter account fell silent apart from posting the press statements. One statement read: The site also offered to waive the account deletion charge. Although Ashley Madison denied reports that a mass release of customer"
"and lesbians for an earthquake in New Zealand. In March 2015, Bluehost was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army. Also hacked were Justhost, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Fastdomain, all owned by Endurance International Group. SEA claimed that these services were hosting terrorist websites. SEA posted screenshots of the attack on Twitter. Bluehost Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 2 million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage. The company operates its servers in-house in a facility in Provo, Utah, which is now"
"huffingtonpost.com and the NY Times. 2013: A major malvertising campaign was waged against ""Yahoo.com"", one of the largest ad platforms with monthly visits of 6.9 billion. The malware exploit was based on the commonly used web attack, Cross-site scripting (XSS), number three in the top ten web attacks types identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). The attack infected users machines with the ransomware, ‘Cryptowall’, a type of malware that extorts money from users by encrypting their data and placing a ransom of up to $1000 in bitcoins, to be paid in 7 days, to decrypt the data."
"of their matches. On June 6, 2012, eharmony confirmed that its password database had been breached and a section of its user base had been affected. Affected members were sent e-mails by the company requesting them to change their password immediately. A 2010 article published by the Harvard Business Review attributed the success of eharmony's system to their large membership base, their efforts to exclude people who are not serious about dating, and their membership fees being more expensive than the fees for other dating websites. The author hypothesizes that, since eharmony's questionnaire and high cost of membership deter people"
"date. In May 2016, an unprecedented series of very large data breaches that dated back several years were all released in a short timespan. These breaches included 360 million Myspace accounts from circa 2009, 164 million LinkedIn accounts from 2012, 65 million Tumblr accounts from early 2013, and 40 million accounts from adult dating service Fling.com. These datasets were all put up for sale by an anonymous hacker named ""peace_of_mind"", and were shortly thereafter provided to Hunt to be included in HIBP. In June 2016, an additional ""mega breach"" of 171 million accounts from Russian social network VK was added"
"were registered by July 2014. As of April 2014, the extensions .link, .sexy, and .tattoo have been registered more than 20,000, 12,318, and 5,932 times, respectively, though these figures include Uniregistry's activated reserved domains. As of February 2015, .diet, .help, .hosting, and .property have been registered 14,596, 21,630, 11,609, and 38,464 times, respectively. The extensions were registered 787, 1,908, 1,197, and 1,490 times, respectively, on the first day of general availability; NSN later registered 13,268, 17,988, 9,329, and 35,991 domains, respectively. FTD purchased the domain Pro.flowers for $50,000 in 2015. In 2015, the registrar surpassed 1.3 million domains under management."
"purchased from Experian subsidiary and data aggregator Court Ventures. Ngo then resold the information through the identity fraud enabling websites Superget.info and Findget.me. The information offered for anonymous sale on these websites included individual's name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, place of work, duration of work, state driver's licence number, mother's maiden name, bank account number(s), bank routing number(s), email account(s) and other account passwords. On 1 October 2015 Experian announced that they had discovered a breach existing between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015. As many as 15 million people who used the company’s services, among"
"doing pretty well"". In September 2015, Anastasiadate.com suffered from a series of DDoS attacks that rendered it inaccessible to users for four to six hours every day. Having demonstrated their capability, hackers contacted the dating site and demanded US$10,000 (£7,234) in exchange for stopping further attacks. After this incident, Anastasiadate.com hired a data security company to investigate this case, identify those responsible, and bring the perpetrators to justice. During the investigation experts at International data security firm Group-IB confirmed that the attack was carried out by Ukrainian nationals Gayk Grishkian and Inna Yatsenko. They also found that the two hackers"
"000webhost, a free web hosting provider. Working with Thomas Fox-Brewster of ""Forbes"", he verified that the dump was most likely legitimate by testing email addresses from it and by confirming sensitive information with several 000webhost customers. Hunt and Fox-Brewster attempted many times to contact 000webhost to further confirm the authenticity of the breach, but were unable to get a response. On 29 October 2015, following a reset of all passwords and the publication of Fox-Brewster's article about the breach, 000webhost announced the data breach via their Facebook page. In early November 2015, two breaches of gambling payment providers Neteller and"
"cheat, said he felt users of the site were anxious the release of sexually explicit messages would humiliate their spouses and children. He wrote it is alarming ""the mob that is the Internet is more than willing to serve as judge, jury, and executioner"" and members of the site ""don’t deserve a flogging in the virtual town square with millions of onlookers."" On 24 August 2015, Toronto police announced that two unconfirmed suicides had been linked to the data breach, in addition to ""reports of hate crimes connected to the hack."" Unconfirmed reports say a man in the U.S. died"
"Alexsey Belan Alexsey Alekseyevich Belan (born 27 June 1987) is a Latvian hacker on the FBI Most Wanted list and sanctioned for ""malicious cyber-enabled activities"" threatening the national security of the United States. Belan is accused of having stolen consumer data from e-commerce websites in Nevada and California, and selling that data on the underground market, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. These accusations include Belan's role in the 2014 Yahoo! data breach that affected 500 million user accounts. Belan's hacking of three companies allowed him to steal approximately 200 million user accounts. There is a USD$100,000 reward for"
"EstablishedMen.com were not permanently closed. By July 22, the first set of customer names were released by hackers, with all of the user data released on August 18, 2015. More data (including some of the CEO's emails) was released on August 20, 2015. The release included data from customers who had previously paid a $19 fee to Ashley Madison to supposedly have their data deleted. The fee was also applied to people who had accounts set up against their will, as a workplace prank, or because of a mistyped email address. On August 28, 2015, Noel Biderman agreed to step"
"outreach, as well as research on ""hookup"" sites for MSM. The website itself has co-operated with HIV/AIDS outreach programs, which have provided sexual health information to its users. The site's 2015 ""Non-Stop Cruising"" campaign sparked a backlash in Dallas, Texas, after complaints were received over their billboard, which featured three ethnically diverse men embracing. In September 2015, the Toronto Transit Commission decided to remove advertisements for the website from its subway trains after riders complained the website promoted illegal sexual activity. Its advertisements were removed from bus stops in Cardiff, Wales, in 2016, following claims they were inappropriate. In 2016"
"it was reported that a database of usernames, e-mails, and passwords had been breached and leaked from Adult FriendFinder and other FriendFinder Networks websites. The breach included 300 million Adult FriendFinder user accounts, including account data for 15 million accounts that had supposedly been ""deleted"". The passwords had not been encrypted at all, or encrypted with the obsolete and insecure SHA-1. The site won the 2010 XBIZ Award for ""Dating Program of the Year"". It was also voted Best Adult Dating Site of 2012 from About.com. Adult FriendFinder Adult FriendFinder (AFF) is an internet-based, adult-oriented social network, online dating service"
"Group, and have announced the creation of a working hub ""to combat so-called cyber exploitation – the practice of anonymously posting explicit photographs of others online, often to extort money from the victims."" Several well-known revenge porn websites, including ""IsAnyoneUp"" and the ""Texxxan"", have been taken down in response to actual or threatened legal action. The former was investigated by the FBI after anti-revenge porn activist Charlotte Laws uncovered a hacking scheme associated with the website. Indictments for fifteen felonies were handed down under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in January 2014 for the site owner and his accomplices,"
"with the Twitter username ""@unknownj"". Webley denied being the source of the leak, and pointed to a web page written by a man named Michael Wheeler that he had read on the same day, which he said strongly hinted that Giggs was the person involved. On 8 May 2011, an account on social networking site Twitter was created under the name ""Billy Jones"", and posted the alleged details of several of the anonymised privacy injunctions that had been mentioned in the media. This included the claim that the married footballer known as CTB had been involved in a seven-month extra-marital"
"travelers who would love the opportunity to travel the world for free. Marlow Stern of ""The Daily Beast"" criticised MissTravel.com for its lack of safety precautions, including the high potential for sex trafficking. And in May 2015, Wade launched OpenMinded.com, a dating website that caters to those who are monogamish with the goal of providing a safe and stigma-free environment that brings the ease and flexibility of online dating to the currently underserved world of open relationships. He further states the website caters to those looking to engage in 'ethical cheating'. In 2018, Seeking Arrangement was rebranded as Seeking. Wade"
"well as linking websites. WikiLeaks published over 30,000 documents that were obtained via the hack in April 2015, with founder Julian Assange stating that the document archive ""shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation"" that should be made public. In November 2015, after Charlie Sheen revealed he was HIV positive in a television interview to Matt Lauer, it was revealed that information about his diagnosis was leaked in an email between senior Sony bosses dated March 10, 2014. In December, Snap Inc., due to the hack, was revealed to have acquired Vergence Labs for $15 million in cash"
"January 20, 2013, the channel was hacked and deleted. After this occurrence, Whindersson opened the channel in which it has more than 23 million subscribers. On February 28, 2018, Whindersson and his girlfriend, Luisa Sonza, got married in a religious ceremony in a Catholic chapel with sea view, in Alagoas, Brazil. The channel currently has over 32 million subscribers, over 2.1 billion views, and more than 330 videos, and has diverse content that includes parodies, vlogs, songwriting and movie reviews. Its main marks are it simplistic editing, scenery and costumes used by Whindersson, who almost always writes shirtless in a"