Huh. When I worked in a sporting goods store we used to offer guaranteed fishing licenses for an extra $5. Never sold a one. I guess our dumb farmers where smarter than Duggar.

Good stuff. Some folks have no idea how the most basic IT security/networking actually works. I'm sure it wasnt him, someone gained control of his machine. Yeah, they beat all of your security, left no trace, authenticated correctly and he didnt know anything was going on. Yeah, thats it.

33M accounts (source BBC). Who would have thought :rolleyes:

Two people have "necked" themselves over this. :(

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506

Scott R you may be missing the point.
The guy is getting squeezed and looking for a way out.
More likely he will point the finger to your team. The ones with his account information, with the logs to incriminate him, the people holding all the keys. He will double down and create reasonable doubt that someone used him as a scapegoat.

You need to make sure you can prove a member of your team could not possibly use his account or modify the logs because you have a big target on your head. Much harder than him creating doubt that you did.

He can't escape Proofpoint, we turned over everything this morning to HR and legal as I don't want to deal with him any longer. Let's just say what we found is beyond any reasonable doubt.

He wanted us to prove his innocence, but I don't think he had any idea as to the level of monitoring we bound to by the Fed.

I would be very interesting if all your web history was suddenly made public. You could deny it, admit it or ignore it. There are no secrets any more...

This is going to be huge. Users better hope there isn't going to be an easily searchable database coming out.

I heard on BBC news that Saudi Arabia had 1200 addresses on the service. A country where infidelity is punishable with death.

More on the impact:

Human cost of Ashley Madison hack is astronomical - Business Insider

So, how many of you have checked your spouses address(es)?

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Ever hear of Stuxnet? That was the old version and I'm sure it's on the black market for a price.
Anything made by mankind can be unmade, given the desire.

I don't feel any sympathy for someone using their freaking work computer to do business with a company centered around extramarital sex affairs, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing happens.

There is also this self-destructing email. Now YOU decide what they can do with your mail!.

I may have experienced that from another scumbag owner who wrote that he'd use the condo association general funds to personally sue me into oblivion for libel/slander. This was after I pointed out the records indicated his personal company had not paid dues for years and years and there was another $25K+ in direct personal "self-payments" with no explanation.
Grand larceny at the felonious level was indicated.
The second time I opened the email to print it there was "an error" and it vanished like magic.

I would deny it. I don't know any of you arseholes. Musta been the kid detailing my cars got into Pelican somehow ...

There is a nearly untapped market for cleansing internet reputations. A few claim they can, but really can't. So if you could find some way, the cash would just roll right in.

If you play you pay.......

Several years ago when this internet thing was just beginning a global company that has plants around the world sent out a memo stating any employee using a company computer for any illegal or immoral (porn) purposes would be fired. Then they waited a couple months and a big shot from headquarters showed up. He had two huge security guards with him. They walked up to a employee at each plant and said in a loud voice "you are fired for viewing porn on a company computer." Handed him a cardboard box to pack is personal stuff in and walked him off the property.

They supposedly did this at each plant around the globe. The message was clear and heard well.

Gimme a linux box with MySQL and a good internet connection and I could knock that out in about 3 hours.

I think the modern "personals" websites make it easy to cheat. :(

On an unrelated note, businesses such as Cherry Blossoms have been around for years. By now, there are probably websites for people looking for people from all over the world. But what the world really needs is more forums like PPOT. Yeah, that's the ticket...

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This Duggar guy is an endless fountain of hypocrisy.

Of course the following is only "alleged".

Porn star claims Josh Duggar paid her for sex while wife was pregnant

You'd think the database with millions of addresses would occupy them for a while...

I am not sure I understand. Reportedly, AM never verified email addresses, etc. It seems like anyone could sign you up. Does this released info also containing credit card records, etc.?

I had a friend who lost his gov't civilian job with the AF for looking at porn on his computer (2nd offense...was punished the first time but didn't learn). They were monitoring every site he visited after the first time.

If they have the database.

Most likely anyone in that business has access to it.

But FWIW you can tell someone way more than you want them to know about you simply by visiting their page.

Hopefully this will be out there soon. I'd like to do a search like *@mycompanydomain.com and see the results.

Heard on the radio this morning that there are only three zip codes in the US that don't have AM members.

Yes, credit card numbers, IP's, plenty of unique identifiers.

Funny, back in the day my boss was away and I had to have the talk with HR about a guy using his camera at work for a little "show" with a lady over the internet. Let's just say I was a little embarrassed as she needed details of exactly what he was doing.

People really have no idea, even when forewarned that everything can be captured and recorded. I find a lot of women going to Adult Friend finder too....all were married.

Are they publishing the unique identifiers like credit card info? Seem like that sure opens a lot of folks up for identity fraud.

I cannot get a facebook account because someone signed up and gave my email. I can't log in to close or change it, cannot open an account myself because that one already exists and facebook can't help because it is "not my account". I constantly get emails from facebook that people have tried to contact me (some I know and some I do not). It is quite annoying. I just wondered if that could happen here?

If they gave your email simply go to facebook.com, upper right under login hit "Forgot Your Password?" link, enter your email address and wait for the confirmation email to come in then change it.

They are publishing the last 4 of the card which if their CC processing is complaint is all they have access to.

Interesting article (link) in Gizmodo where someone did an analysis of the accounts and came to the conclusion that there virtually no real women with accounts.

I wonder if there was a fault with analysis or if it is really true.

^^ complete BS..

It does not work that way.

From your comments I take it you've had an account? Is your email on the list?

Uhm, yeah it does.

I just did exactly that.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1440629659.jpg

Edit, nevermind, I missed fintstone's original post.

Ok, I'm slow... please explain this to me.
If someone signed up for AM with your email address, wouldn't you immediately receive the confirmation email and realize that something fishy was going on?
I suppose that, conceivably, someone could sign up with their own email address, then change their contact email to yours... depending on how their notifications worked.

Sounds like this was the honeypot to end all honeypots.

Did you change your password?

That's assuming a notification email was a part of their process which, considering the service, would be something their customers really would not want so I could see them specifically and intentionally NOT sending them.

Where is the list?

Yes, went through the entire process.

I used one of the accounts I keep for tying into clients accounts.

I've actually changed that one the same way 3 times now.

I'm not terribly surprised. After that map was posted (here), I poked around Washington state, and noticed that Inchelium has exactly 48% male users (other cites percentages go to four decimal places)

That means that this place with about 250 people ages 18-64 has at least 24 male and 26 female users... so 1 in 4 or 5 women there is on AM? I kind of doubt it.

The next step always asks me questions that I don't have the answers for. Does it not ask you for your birthday or phone number?

They set up additional security checks.

They really wanted to keep you out.

Sorry about that.

I assume it does not see a cookie it recognizes since I did not set up the account.

Just as well. I am too old for social media.

I often wonder who has time to have an affair?