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Ashley Madison questions

Stepmom09's picture

My first things is where on the internet do I go to search email address to see who was using it? (Y'all know you want to see if remarried BMs are on it) The next is people paid for this site?? I think I heard it on NPR this morning (yes I am old and boring I listen to NPR all day) Next, does anyone have any ideas who did this? (the reward money would be fantastic)

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Stepmom09's picture

Lol I am very nosy years ago my friends and I would make fake profiles on different dating(hook up) sites and write our male friends. It was really funny when we found people we knew on there that didn't know we were stupid on there.

Stepmom09's picture

Similar with BM except she can't stay faithful and a friend saw her husband on a dating site once so I guess the same can be said about him.

Mercury's picture

And fake profiles generated by the Ashley Madison crew to act just serious enough to get the guys to subscribe to a paid account.....

Conspiracy theories for the win. Wink

But seriously, I've heard a few people suggest this possibility.

Glassslipper's picture

This is the last I heard when I researched the site, nothing I write is guaranteed accurate, its info I found online:

The group of hackers that stole the information were a group that felt the "have an affair" was wrong and threatened to release it if they didn't shut the site down permanently.

The site consisted mainly of men members (70%) who paid in credits to "chat" with girls ie: send messages back and forth, every message a man opened cost money to open and every message he sent to a girl cost money to send.

Women could use it for free

Ashley Madison caught some heat back in the day because the website was 70% men and there was a large volume of computer generated "women" accounts that would message the members and Ashley Madison would collect money for these messages.

There has been multiple sites that have tried to publish a searchable form of the hacked list, however once one launches, it gets so many hits, it crashes, so there is currently no way to search it.

That's all I read about it.

Glassslipper's picture

Yep, and from what I learned most of their 30% women, were auto bots or hookers looking to meet up for $$$$

Mercury's picture

Yes! This is what I was talking about. Your explanation of the pay per message deal makes this sound even more plausible.

ItsGrowingOld's picture

Hmmmm. I read something completely different. The hackers outed Ashley Madison because they promote high security (NOT!) and charge $19.99 to have your profile wiped clean (NOT!). The hackers said they wanted to expose the security breach and prove that no site is 100% secure or safe! They wanted to prove that personal information (cc's, names, addresses, mailing address, sexual stuff, picture, etc, etc) can not be wiped clean from the internet. Even if you pay to have it done!

notsobad's picture

Well if that was their goal, they've succeeded.

Just last year snapchat admitted that nothing was deleted even though that was the whole point of the site. Until people get caught with their pants down, literally, they don't care.

Snowflake's picture

I wouldn't bother searching. I read that many people are putting malware and spyware on the sites to lure people to look.

Stepmom09's picture

dang

z3girl's picture

Only men have to pay for the site.

I would have been interested to know if DH was on it a few years ago (hence my knowledge on what sites are paid etc) but I could care less anymore.

*yawn*

DaizyDuke's picture

I read about this website a few years ago in Glamour or Cosmo or some such magazine. It makes me sick.

"Life is short, have an affair." I mean what the ever loving fuck? How about life is short, so be kind and do unto others as you would have done unto yourself, if you aren't happy in your marriage then be a fucking man and get out before you start taking your dick out for other women.

GAH! I HATE, HATE, HATE cheaters.