Tuesday, August 25, 2015

What's Up With Ashley Madison Suicides And The Bounty?

Two people connected with the leak of Ashley Madison client details are accounted for to have taken their lives, as indicated by police in Canada. The Toronto police gave no further data about the incident.


Information related to over more than 33 million accounts were stolen and leaked online from the site. The website facilitates its clients to have extramarital affairs.

The hackers threatened to leak the humiliating information if the site didn't shut down its services. Ashley Madison didn't cooperate, thus the hackers acted on their threat, overturning the lives of individuals who'd relied on the site's secrecy.

To expand the probability of capturing the hackers responsible, Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, offered $500,000 Canadian ($377,000) on Monday to anybody giving data prompting the capture of those included.

It's surprising however not something new for an organization to put up a bounty on a hacker, said Alex Rice, an official at HackerOne, which assists associate organizations with coding specialists who can discover defects in their product.

If this putting up of a bounty succeeds in capturing the one's responsible, it might actually restore the public's faith in Internet organizations, specialists say.


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