How did the Ashley Madison hack affect society

Fake names are released

Some People who had nothing to do with the site had their names used, and released This causes them to have less chances of getting jobs, due to bad reputation.

People question other website's safety and privacy

If a popular website could be hacked in a matter of months, even with guarenteed security, how about the other websites?

Credit numbers are released

This could greatly effect the banks and the credit card holder.

How can this hack effect ME?

• Millions of e-mail addresses, home addresses, credit cards and other information are contained within the leaked database.
• if your email address was used(someone might have used your email address instead of theirs to sign up)
• Home addresses and other personal information which is apt to change hands could put innocent people at risk for being targeted by scammers and identity thieves.
• spam claims posing as trusted websites emailing people saying how to see the people's names in the Hack.
• people who sign up would hve similar names and emails and would write it wrong, and a people who has nothing to do with the hack will have their emails released, an with similar names to the actual user will be falsely accused

What is the Ashley Madison Hack?

The Ashley Madison Hack is a data breach done by the Impact team, when they stole the data of Ashley Madison, a website that helps people have affairs. The hackers threatened The company that they would release the data if the didn't shut down, however were ignored. There was ten a data dump of 25 GB of the company's data, including the user's data too. The information was released in the Dark Web. After the company released a statement that they would find the hackers, and then a second dump on August 2015 was leaked out.