Ashley Madison hack: your questions answered
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#HZ64)
What happened, why hackers were able to steal the data and what can you do if your details appear online
A dating site with the tagline "Life is short. Have an affair" which offers married people the opportunity to cheat on their spouses. With a claimed 37m users, it is one of the biggest of its sort, and no stranger to controversy: the site had previously allowed a sports scientist to eavesdrop on conversations between its users to write a paper on how women seek affairs, and regularly contacted journalists to offer "adultery insights" based on data from their users.
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