Ashley Madison hack is not only real, it’s worse than we thought
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Researchers are still poring over the unusually large dump, but already they say it includes user names, first and last names, and hashed passwords for 33 million accounts, partial credit card data, street names, and phone numbers for huge numbers of users, records documenting 9.6 million transactions, and 36 million e-mail addresses.
Already, websites are popping up that allow anyone to enter an e-mail address and find out if it was included in the dump. It wouldn't be surprising for the same thing to be done for phone numbers and other data fields. This massive leak isn't likely to end well for huge numbers of people.
That makes you wonder how in the days before the Internet people had affairs. Maybe it was not as easy, but it sure was more secret.