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Re:EHarmony confirms password breach by jgrahamc on Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:09AM (#4078798)
If I were a criminal hacker with access to ashleymadison.com user data I wouldn't be talking about it. I'd be blackmailing wealthy people who are cheating on the site or the site itself.

So, I doubt you'd hear about such a hack.

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Re:EHarmony confirms password breach by jwoah12 on Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:25AM (#4078874)
True. Some people are driven by things other than money, though. e.g. the idea that they are doing "God's work"
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Re:EHarmony confirms password breach by pcopley on Thursday June 07, 2012 @11:03AM (#4079313)
Those people aren't typically hackers.
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Re:EHarmony confirms password breach by jwoah12 on Thursday June 07, 2012 @11:40AM (#4079516)
Poor choice of words in "God's work." I didn't mean to insinuate that they had to be religious, just that they are hacking for some ideal(s) rather than personal gain or just to be a dick. Anonymous, for example.
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Re:EHarmony confirms password breach by pcopley on Thursday June 07, 2012 @03:05PM (#4080741)
Gotcha. I was blinded by my own secular zealotry!
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