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September 22, 2015

Ashley Madison Data Leak Claimed Suicide

In August, Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman stepped down over the hacking scandal embroiling his marital cheating website. In September, a user whose data had been leaked killed himself. Were the hackers justified in publishing the names, account details, credit card information and sexual preferences of some 32 million users (including many records with .gov emails and, unless it's fake, of former UK prime minister Tony Blair), or are they needlessly and gratuitously jeopardizing the lives of countless people and their families?