Ashley Madison stats find New Orleans among the ‘most adulterous’ cities

More than 10,000 government accounts have been identified as being associated with the Ashley Madison data hack.

This is what two Canadian law firms, Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg LLP, are banking on.

On its website, the company displays a running count of “anonymous members”.

The lawsuit targets Avid Dating Life Inc. and Avid Life Media Inc., the Toronto-based companies that run AshleyMadison.com. It purports to have about 39 million members.

“Customer data that they kept, even after collecting the money to delete the profile”, mused Chris Hughes, a self-proclaimed hacker.

“I’ve had patients where a number of marriages have broken up because of Ashley Madison“, said Beasley.

“We’re way too fearless about the way we enter information online”, Michael DeCesare, CEO of network security company ForeScout Technologies, told CBS News. “All day the IT people were investigating”, he said.

People have become accustomed to trusting their most precious personal information to companies.

Von Wolffradt said they would forward the information to human resources professionals to check into the situation. Motherboard says the hackers they spoke to were using the same PGP key used in the data dumps.

“I think it’s really missing the point of what the discussion should be right now and that is, “Is monogamy really working for us”?” “Have an affair.” Hackers stole the data and demanded that the site be shut down, or the data would be released.

“Ashley Madison actually charges you to remove your information when you remove your account”, he says. They were all “absolutely terrified” about being humiliated, about their kids being teased at school, about their professional and personal lives falling apart as a result of the leak – their private world on public display. The hosts plugged his details into a website and said they found a match.

This applies to anyone collecting users’ information, from big insurance companies like Anthem and massive federal databases like OPM’s, to comparatively small independent websites and online stores.

In her TED Talk titled Why Happy Couples Cheat, delivered this May in Vancouver, sex therapist Esther Perel said that while adultery has existed as long as the institution of marriage, “it’s never been easier to cheat and it’s never been more hard to keep a secret”.

“Here the capital, so to speak, isn’t a credit card or consumer goods”. Users pay a fee each time they send a message to a potential lover.

“The opportunity to be anonymous and to link up with someone to have a thrill, something that’s exciting, I think that’s the draw that Ashley Madison has”, said Dr. Stewart R. Beasley, PH.D.