Ashley Madison user accounts leaked online

john_s · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:17

Greebo said:
Hmmm not sure that link works right.

1. My email doesnt come up for Adobe
2. If you try known emails from the press reported as been listed on the Ashley Madison leak they come up with nothing.

1: Mine does.

2: It won't show the Ashley Madison email addresses (to stop absolutely anyone being able to check if your email address was listed and AM), but will notify your registered (and verified) email address if if they appear in the leak.

Captain Fizz · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:18

Greebo said:
...and if you try a known email reported by the press as been in the Madison leak then it comes back as no leak.

HaveIBeenPwned said:
Important notice regarding the Ashley Madison data: only those who have subscribed for notifications and verified their email address will be able to discover if they were in the breach due to the sensitivity of the data. You can read more about the rationale of this approach here.

Mr Jones · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:18

Greebo said:
Thats the thing though. Thats the one that was linked before.

It doesnt come up for Adobe for my email and it should (Ive checked elsewhere and my email was defintiely leaked) and if you try a known email reported by the press as been in the Madison leak then it comes back as no leak.

Troy Hunt said:
This was always going to be a huge incident given not just the scale of the number of accounts impacted by the Ashley Madison breach (well over 30M), but the sensitivity of the data within it. However the interest has surprised even me – I loaded the breached data into Have I been pwned? (HIBP) about 8 hours ago and I’m presently seeing about 30k visitors an hour to the site. I’ve had a commensurate number of media and support queries such that I just can’t respond to them all individually so I’m putting together this Q&A instead.

One very important point first: HIBP will not expose any Ashley Madison data to the public. I wrote about this last month in anticipation of the Ashley Madison data being leaked and I stand firm on that today. Even though there are now multiple sites making it easy for anyone to check any email address, as someone very aptly said yesterday “you don’t want to be that guy” – the one who could be the channel through which information is learned that has a serious adverse impact on peoples’ lives.

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:22

ah that makes sense then

Still wonder why my email doesnt come up for Adobe though?

ttaskmaster · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:31

Energize said:
An open relationship isn't cheating is it. And I doubt the visitors of this website really fall into the latter category.

That's why I said 'cheating'...

As for the latter - You'd be surprised.

spudbynight · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:39

OldCoals said:
It in't a crime to be gay.

um...

OldCoals said:
Have you considered that gay people who live in countries where homosexuality is illegal use sites like this to meet?

...er...

The_Abyss · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:54

Well, that escalated quickly!

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/technology/internet/article4533557.ece

dowie · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:56

I reckon divorce lawyers are missing a trick if they're not already searching that database for wealthy people and getting in touch with the spouses...

dowie · 21 Aug 2015 at 13:58

I mean it seems there were people dumb enough to sign up with official government, military e-mail addresses etc... thousands apparently... should easily be able to find a few goldman sachs, morgan stanley etc.. e-mail addresses in there

arknor · 21 Aug 2015 at 14:08

so some ocukers used the site, just curious did you ever meet anyone from it?

I heard some so called fact that 85-95% of the sites users were male, and thousands of the female profiles were fake so it's basically a big scam

ttaskmaster · 21 Aug 2015 at 14:49

arknor said:
so some ocukers used the site, just curious did you ever meet anyone from it?

Only other OCUKers... They mainly wanted game time on some Intel/Nvidia rigs, but without AMD knowing the hurtful truth...

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 15:00

dowie said:
I reckon divorce lawyers are missing a trick if they're not already searching that database for wealthy people and getting in touch with the spouses...

First uk divorce starting on back of this. Some firm of laywers has already reported one new client who is filing for divorce based on husbands name been on the list.

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 15:02

dowie said:
I mean it seems there were people dumb enough to sign up with official government, military e-mail addresses etc... thousands apparently... should easily be able to find a few goldman sachs, morgan stanley etc.. e-mail addresses in there

The hackers made that easier. They released the details based on email domain in sections to make life easy

Quite a few bankers and government officials. About 200 at IBM.

dowie · 21 Aug 2015 at 15:57

I presume that first one though is some wife contacting her solicitor - would be interesting to see if any solicitors actively seek out clients on the back of this... there are enough dodgy firms out there chasing accidents, PPI etc..

Clipsey · 21 Aug 2015 at 16:02

arknor said:
so some ocukers used the site, just curious did you ever meet anyone from it?

I heard some so called fact that 85-95% of the sites users were male, and thousands of the female profiles were fake so it's basically a big scam

I read 85% male

12 million were fake / dud email accounts.

shot2pi3ces · 21 Aug 2015 at 16:26

arknor said:
maybe it's harvesting emails to be sold in bulk to spammers

Greebo said:
Hmmm not sure that link works right.

1. My email doesnt come up for Adobe
2. If you try known emails from the press reported as been listed on the Ashley Madison leak they come up with nothing.

Greebo said:
lol i wouldnt be surprised. I cant find an email which comes up as a yes on that link and i know thats wrong.

Stupidity strikes again...

From https://haveibeenpwned.com

Important notice regarding the Ashley Madison data: only those who have subscribed for notifications and verified their email address will be able to discover if they were in the breach due to the sensitivity of the data. You can read more about the rationale of this approach here.

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 17:22

I hadnt spotted that and already I have since posted and said "oh tahts why". No need to call me stupid

V F · 21 Aug 2015 at 17:53

I'm curious, why is there a sudden surge in hacking lately? from Sony to this... and why wasn't all this taking place 5 - 8 years ago or so or regular occurrences.

What is the reason that it feels or appears that everything is getting hacked nowadays unlike the past... As all I ever seem to hear these years is such and such has been compromised/breached/leaked/stolen. You name it.

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 18:16

Funny how the press seems to be accepting that Michelle Thomson, Scott Mills and Tony Blair's emails were all added on there by hoaxers?

I wonder how many "normal" husbands will get away with "honest, my email has been added by somebody else?

heres the hack map of ashley madison users

Greebo · 21 Aug 2015 at 18:17

V F said:
I'm curious, why is there a sudden surge in hacking lately? from Sony to this... and why wasn't all this taking place 5 - 8 years ago or so or regular occurrences.

What is the reason that it feels or appears that everything is getting hacked nowadays unlike the past... As all I ever seem to hear these years is such and such has been compromised/breached/leaked/stolen. You name it.

Hackers winning?