The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by regularfry on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:27AM (#10083960)

Heh. If I were Ashley Madison, and I wanted to create plausible deniability for people in the real dataset, you know what I'd do? I'd create and "leak" a bunch of other datasets with generated data, and data pilfered from other hacks, to muddy the waters. "Oh, my name's in there? That must be faked up data from the Playstation Network hack years ago. Of course I'd never sign up to Ashley Madison, Mr Journalist."

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by lordsper on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:29AM (#10084767)

Except there's already a verified dump out there:

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but it just won't work.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by joaq on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @12:05PM (#10086479)

Gotta love computer science and how it helps solve so many problems :)

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by ibejoeb on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:39AM (#10084458)

I haven't seen the dataset. Is there material there that confirms its legitimacy? Are we entirely sure that this isn't just opm, target, home depot, tjx, etc? (Edit: sounds like full dataset dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10083656)

"sources who all have reported finding their information and last four digits of their credit card numbers in the leaked database."

That's ambiguous, and the article indicates that there is considerable doubt as to the authenticity of this purported leak, along with a history of known fakes.

Even beyond that, the article mentioned that the emails were never verified, so it sounds like any could use any name and email to establish an account.

I'm sure this means trouble for some people, but there seems to be highly plausible deniability.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by technomancy on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:21AM (#10084078)

Agreed; it would be insane of them not to.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by txdv on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:28AM (#10084762)

They signed the real data set with a key, so if you want to release.

Whoever wants to release more, needs to get hands first on that private kye.

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