Hackers Gain Access to Extramarital Dating Databases by Chris DiMarco.
From the post:
Few things in life are as private as our romantic entanglements. So with hackers announcing they’ve made off with as many as 37 million records from the parent company of extramarital dating site AshleyMadison.com, you can be sure there are plenty of people sweating over the potential fallout.
The hackers, “The Impact Team,” have demanded the extramarital site shut down or all the data will be released. That’s an odd use of pirated data.
A better strategy would be to complete the profiles to discover spouses and sell the resulting list to divorce lawyers. The profiles of the offending partners would be extra.
There are any number of countries want to help the United States police its loose morals. They could legalize the sales of the data (not its acquisition). You would not even have to launder the money.
The other upside would be a giant lesson to many users in protecting their own privacy.
No one else is going to.
Is that clear?