A life lesson for us all: if you want to cheat on your partner, maybe instead, just break up with your partner.
Why? Because sometimes the website that you use to find your side-chick/dude gets hacked, and all of your personal information is leaked. (Plus – do we even have to say this? – cheating is quite shit. You know… morally.)
AshleyMadison.com, the marital affair website that advertises ‘Life is too short. Have an affair.’ as their motto, has been hacked by a group calling themselves ‘The Impact Team’.
The group are targeting ALM, the company that owns Ashley Madison and other marital affair websites such as Cougar Life and Established Men. They have threatened to release delicate information of users if the websites remain online, including social media profiles, nude images, sexual fantasies and fetishes, financial details, employment documents, and addresses.
The Impact Team‘s issue seems to be with the company’s ‘full delete’ feature, which is supposed to allow users to wipe all personal and financial details from the site – but allegedly doesn’t.
To prove this, The Impact Team announced:
“Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver. We’ve got the complete set of profiles in our DB dumps, and we’ll release them soon if Ashley Madison stays online. And with over 37 million members, mostly from the US and Canada, a significant percentage of the population is about to have a very bad day, including many rich and powerful people.”
According to The Huffington Post, the company believes that it was a former employee who helped initiate the leak, and they are close to finding out who it is.
If you met someone you’re having an affair with over these websites, we’d recommend ‘fessing up now. And maybe take this as a giant flashing neon sign that cheating on your significant other kinda sucks. (In case you weren’t already aware.)
via Huffington Post
Image via Ashley Madison
