Ashley madison website possibly blamed for 2 suicides now..... Wow!!

[Summitric]

Toronto Police are stepping up their investigation into the hack of Toronto-based website Ashley Madison. Caryn Lieberman reportsTORONTO – Toronto police revealed Monday they are investigating two unconfirmed reports of suicides relating to the data hack targeted against adultery website Ashley Madison.
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“As of this morning, we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customer profiles,” said Acting Staff Superintendent Bryce Evans during a press conference at Toronto police headquarters on Monday.
The Toronto-based website, which offers to connect people looking to have an affair, was initially hacked last month by a group called The Impact Team.
READ MORE: What we know about the Ashley Madison data dump
The hacker group’s data breach exposed some 32 million memberships in the adultery website last week.

WATCH: Highlights from Toronto Police news conference on Ashley Madison hack investigation
[h=4]Toronto Police urging those who are getting extortion messages from Ashley Madison hack not to pay[/h]

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[h=5]Toronto Police urging those who are getting extortion messages from Ashley Madison hack not to pay[/h]



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[h=5]Toronto Police are not concerned with the nature of Ashley Madison’s online service, only the crime that was committed[/h]



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[h=5]Toronto Police outline timeline of events in Ashley Madison hack[/h]



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[h=5]Toronto Police stress ‘social impact’ of Ashley Madison hack on families[/h]




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[h=5]Toronto Police sends message directly to those behind Ashley Madison hack[/h]







“The ripple effect of the Impact Team’s actions has and will continue to have a long term social and economic impacts and they have already sparked spin-offs of crimes and further victimization,” said Evans.
The San Antonio Express-News reported last week a city worker who had his user data compromised in the hack committed suicide on Thursday. But the publication admitted it was unclear Friday whether his death had anything to do with the leak.
Police say employees at Avid Life Media Inc., the company which operates the website, received a threatening message on their work computer screens accompanied by the ACDC song ‘Thunderstruck’ on July 12.
The message warned the company it would expose personal user data if the website was not shut down.
Police say Avid Life Media Inc. immediately hired a security firm and contacted law enforcement on the alleged threat.
“When reporting events to police, Avid Life Media advised that the suspect had in fact already made good on the threat by releasing the information on two Ashley Madison clients, one from Mississauga, Ont. and the other from Brockton, Mass. through the internet on July 19,” said Evans.
READ MORE: Ashley Madison data dump blunts blackmail danger, ex-CSIS agent says
But despite efforts to prevent the exposure of further confidential client information, police say The Impact Team released the entire Ashley Madison user list on Aug. 19.
There are hundreds of email addresses in the data release that appear to be connected to federal, provincial and municipal workers across Canada, as well as to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the military.
[h=4]Fallout from Ashley Madison hack continues, Class Action lawsuit planned[/h]

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[h=5]Fallout from Ashley Madison hack continues, Class Action lawsuit planned[/h]



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[h=5]Hackers release Ashley Madison user information[/h]



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[h=5]15,000 emails exposed during Ashley Madison hack allegedly traces to U.S. gov’t accounts[/h]



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[h=5]Ashley Madison hackers release personal information of extra-marital website’s users[/h]







The credit-card information of U.S. government workers, some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and the Justice Department, was also revealed in the data breach.
READ MORE: Will the Ashley Madison hack force us to take online privacy more seriously?
Some of the information released include at least seven years’ worth of credit card and payment information details as well as users’ personal names, emails, home addresses and message history.
Police have confirmed a number of clients have also been contacted in an attempt to extort money from them.
“If you would like to prevent me from sharing this dirt with all of your friends and family (and perhaps even your employer too?) then you need to send exactly 1.05 Bitcoins to the following address,” said an email dated Aug. 23 directed at a client released by Toronto police on Monday.
Police say the Bitcoin amount is equal to around $300 Canadian.

VIDEO: Toronto Police urging those who are getting extortion messages from Ashley Madison hack not to pay

Police sent a direct message to the group behind the hack warning them that multiple law enforcement agencies are now on their tails.
“Team Impact, I want to make it very clear to you that your actions are illegal and will not be tolerated,” said Evans.
“This is a wake up a call. We will continue to work with law enforcement officers to stop or minimize the social and economic impact of your actions.”
The investigation into the hack has been made up of several police forces including the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
VIDEO: Toronto Police stress ‘social impact’ of Ashley Madison hack on families

Police are warning the public and clients of Ashley Madison not to click on links to download the hacked information due to security risks.
“Criminals have already engaged in online scams by claiming to provide access to the leaked websites,” said Evans.
“The public needs to be aware that by clicking on these links, you are exposing your computer to malware, spyware, adware and viruses.”
Evans is also advising Ashley Madison clients to refrain from using websites which offer to erase customer profiles for a fee.
“This is also a scam. Multiple sites have now been downloaded and they are present. Nobody is going to be able to erase that information,” said Evans.
A national class-action lawsuit of $578 million was recently launched for Canadian subscribers to Ashley Madison.
Filed last Thursday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the lawsuit targets Avid Dating Life Inc. and Avid Life Media Inc., the operators of AshleyMadison.com.
The company also announced a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those involved in the hack.
Review a liveblog of the press conference from Global News reporter Caryn Lieberman

With a file from Nicole Bogart and The Associated Press

 

[Bogger]

Lots of folks on edge right now.

According to company billing Lloydminster was #2 on their client user list.

Which parts of Canada spent the most on Ashley Madison? | Toronto Star

 

[Joholio]

Lol my uncle Louis used to say " dont phuck around or ya wont be around"

But I think he was talking about something else lol

 

[dogsmack]

Lots of folks on edge right now.

According to company billing Lloydminster was #2 on their client user list.

Which parts of Canada spent the most on Ashley Madison? | Toronto Star

I can't confirm it but one of the guys at work was saying he was reading in a news blip that something like Calgary had 10% of its population using Ashley Madison.

You don't miss a slice off a cut loaf!

 

[tiger666]

I wonder if the price of oil would have caused a decrease in loyds spending?

 

[whoDEANie]

I wonder if the price of oil would have caused a decrease in loyds spending?

141 000 just from Edmonton. So, I guess the question now is "Who's not on Ashley Madison?"

 

[Summitric]

By: Joel Eastwood Data Journalist, Craig Desson Digital Producer, William Davis Data Analyst, Published on Fri Aug 21 2015



An analysis of Ashley Madison credit card transactions reveals where Canadians spent the most money on the adultery-promoting dating website.

On Tuesday, hackers released a deluge of data allegedly stolen from the Toronto-based company, including seven years’ worth of billing data. The leak included partial credit card numbers, transaction amounts and the street addresses of customers.

To protect the customers’ privacy, the Star has aggregated the transactions by the first three digits of each postal code. The accuracy of the data itself cannot be verified. All of the site’s members are consenting adults.

Topping the list is the corner of Toronto’s Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. W. Not coincidentally, this is also the location of the main office of Avid Life Media Inc., Ashley Madison’s parent company.

More than $215,000 in transactions are recorded at the company’s address.

The small town of Lloydminster, which straddles the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, is the second-highest spending postal code in the country. The records suggest $142,000 worth of transactions originated from this corner of Alberta alone.

Postal codes in Milton and Oakville are third and fourth, respectively. The two GTA neighbourhoods spent more than $130,000 each on the online service.

A postal code in Guelph, Ont. rounds out the top five highest spenders. In contrast, neighbourhoods in Selkirk, Man., Moncton N.B. and downtown Montreal spent the least amount on Ashley Madison, the data indicate.


These total dollar figures do not control for the population within each postal code.




On Thursday, Avid Life Media said in a statement it was working with several law enforcement agencies to find those responsible for the breach.

“Regardless of the nature of the content, our customers, this company, and its employees are all exercising their legal and individual rights, and all deserve the ability to do so unhindered by outside interference, vigilantism, selective moralizing and judgment,” the statement said.

The company had previously said it never stored members’ full credit card numbers.

Computers linked to the Department of National Defence and the House of Commons were used to make some of the credit card purchases.

Some of the names mentioned in the House of Commons transaction records are easily verifiable as current or former staffers. In the DND transaction records, some of the addresses are DND facilities.

National Defence referred most questions to the federal Treasury Board, which has an overall responsibility.

Lisa Murphy, spokeswoman for the Treasury Board, would only say that the government has rules for the professional and personal use of its computers. She declined to answer a series of specific questions, but referenced the government’s guidelines that say every breach of the rules is dealt with on an individual basis.

In a written statement, a DND spokeswoman echoed some of Murphy’s statement, and said the department “has policies and practices in place to deter, detect and enforce unauthorized and prohibited computer use.”

On Thursday, a second batch of data was released by the hackers who took responsibility for the first breach. The second leak claims to include source code for Avid Life Media sites, including AshleyMadison.com and CougarLife.com, as well as 13 gigabytes of company CEO Noel Biderman’s emails.

The file purported to contain Biderman’s emails is corrupted, so the Star could not access its contents.

As with the first leak, the data was posted on the Quantum Magazine website, which can only be accessed with an anonymous Internet browser. The website also offers an article about manufacturing guns with 3D printers and an essay on “taking conventional hacktivism to the cyber-warfare level.”

Websites have reposted government employee email addresses found in the leaked membership data, connecting their identity with Ashley Madison. In one case an email address with an Ontario Attorney General domain name appeared on three Ashley Madison leak webpages.

Finding an email address in the leaked data does not confirm a person used the site.

A class-action lawsuit filed against Avid Life Media Thursday has attracted interest from hundreds of Canadians, according to lawyer Ted Charney.


With files from Ben Spurr and Star wires

 

[Summitric]

Canadian municipalities with top spending postal codes

William Davis / Toronto Star Toronto $233,229.6

Lloydminster $146,024.2

Milton $132,206.34

Oakville $130,134.89

Guelph $126,200.32

 

[arff]

If you own a Polaris don't have time for that crap.

Too busy replacing axles and drinking beer.

 

[X-Treme]

Isn't Ric just the bringer of "sunshine and happiness" today...... Ummmm NO.

 

[TylerG]

Isn't Ric just the bringer of "sunshine and happiness" today...... Ummmm NO.

reading Snowandmud is becoming much like reading the newspaper.......... depressing

 

[X-Treme]

reading Snowandmud is becoming much like reading the newspaper.......... depressing

Totally!!

 

[Caper11]

Hey it snowed 3 days ago cheer up. Sounds like there is a lot of depressed customers.
Lol


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[handyandy]

Judging by the police reaction, I think some of them must have been members haha

 

[Bogger]

I guess that all depends on who took the necktie ride on a 2 legged stool, never know maybe it's good news.

reading Snowandmud is becoming much like reading the newspaper.......... depressing

 

[lilduke]

Haha

 

[catalac]

If you committed suicide because of being caught on Ashley Madison I'm thinking there were bigger issues in the background.

 

[doorfx]

Yea the mistress lol

 

[niner]

Obviously all these Ashley Madisoners aren't sledders. Because when I get some free time I want to go sledding not slutting.

 

[arff]

Obviously all these Ashley Madisoners aren't sledders. Because when I get some free time I want to go sledding not slutting.

Or own Polaris


Always wrenching