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Ashley Madison: Two women explain how hack changed their lives
When infidelity dating site Ashley Madison was hacked, the details of 33 million user accounts were published on the web. The BBC has spoken to two women, one whose fiance used the site and one who used it herself. Neither wanted to be identified, but their stories give some hint of just how dramatic and wide-reaching the impact of the hack has been. The first only wanted to be named as "Maria". She says she used an online tool to search for her fiance's email address in the dumped data.
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It sucks that they're going through all this, but by cheating you agree to suffer consequences if you're found out. I mean, there are going to be repercussions for everything, no matter why you used the service, and nobody is exempt from this.
Well, neither one of the women in the article cheated.
One was registered at the site and thinking about an affair, but according to her, she ditched the single appointment she made and decided her marriage was more important to her after all.
The other one was actually cheated on by her fiancé. That's what I personally think is most horrible about this leak. You're putting a person who was already betrayed out in the open by telling the entire world what happened. It's a good thing she found out about her fiancé, but on the other hand there couldn't be a much shittier way of it happening.
This is a very dangerous (and wrong) attitude.
Yeah, I feel like once she decided not to go for the affair, she should have thought about why she even considered it, and tried to solve the obviously present problems in her relationship by talking to her husband about the entire deal.
I was talking about the... actually, I get why you said that, my comment doesn't make much sense. Those two women are alright, I meant the other users like the first woman's fiancé.