ipl-logo

Ashley Madison Case

654 Words3 Pages

Hackers often a get rap from the public and the media. They often commit an illegal act to obtain and release information that should not normally be out in the public. In the Ashley Madison case, the hackers sought to shut down the adultery site. The hackers also had information that would damage the site and its’ user. This information was used as leverage as the hackers made their demands. Adultery and cheating is wrong by all means, but that does not give these hackers the right to engage in criminal acts by breaching data, extortion and releasing private information obtained via hacking. For instance, obtaining information through hacking and any other unauthorized method is a criminal act. These hackers illegally obtained private information with the intent to release the …show more content…

The hackers’ attempt to send a message to the company and users of the site was a dangerous criminal act. Their actions put many people’s privacy and private information into the open. The hackers’ action could lead to public humiliation for the site’s users along with putting them at risk for extortion and blackmail. The hack and ensuing data breach would show that the fee customers paid did not delete their information as promised. In the months leading up to the data breach, the hackers sent messages the executives of the Avid Life Media group who ran the Ashley Madison site. These messages warned the company that the data breach would be leaked to the public if they did not shut their website down. These hackers attempted to extort and blackmail the company into shutting the site down using the data obtained by hacking as leverage. These threatening messages and attempts to extort the company in itself are a criminal act. Extortion The hackers obtained information about customers such as email addresses, credit cards and other personal information through hacking. Another argument could be made the hackers releasing the private information would be a

Show More
Related
434 Words | 2 Pages

In summer 2014, eBay was a victim of massive security breach. Up to 148 million customers’ sensitive information was in risk due to a hack. This posed identity theft and password theft risk for eBay’s customers. They were advised to immediately change their password. Through social engineering and phishing, hackers were able to get access of some employee’s access credentials.

Read More
143 Words | 1 Pages

My source analysis paper is about “Terror and Play, or What Was Hacktivism” written by Peter Krapp. In the paper, Krapp talked about how technology and hacking are becoming the new way to be criminals in the internet world. In the article, it addresses that there are “three misunderstanding in the standoff between old and new media.” (Krapp, 2005, pp. 71) The three misunderstandings are (1) Hackers are assumed to be premature criminals.

Read More
912 Words | 4 Pages

Hacker groups are defined as informal communities that started forming in the early 1980s with the invention of the home computer. Hacking groups have been responsible for several major breaks of cyber security either fueled by social injustice or a need to wreak havoc on many different types of organizations. Some major hacking incidents that have occurred include Sony Pictures’ network being broken into by hacking groups in November of 2014. Hackers managed to release employee and salary records. Anonymous is one of the most infamous and radical hacking groups around today.

Read More
998 Words | 4 Pages

Should organizations whose information systems are “hacked” be liable for damages for the compromise of personal information stored on those systems. A business should absolutely be liable for any damages that are caused by a breach of their system. In today’s economic environment business are looking for ways to expand their market. One of the ways businesses have achieved this is by offering online services to their customers.

Read More
915 Words | 4 Pages

Consequently, many people have decided to take action and sue Ashley Madison for negligently causing damage. The article by Amanda Lee Myers, “8 People Are Suing Ashley Madison Following Data Breach” proceeds to explain that

Read More
532 Words | 3 Pages

He then destroyed the sites original databases crippling the law-enforcement-riddled credit card fraud industry and unifying it into one, clean site for all credit card hackers to

Read More
1692 Words | 7 Pages

Introduction Among the main contenders for the title of greatest private company’s hacking, we find the attack perpetrated against the TJX company. By exploiting the security’s weakness of the Wi-Fi network, a group of hackers managed to steal information from the company's database during a period of 18 months (Appendix 1) without being detected. When the intrusion was discovered in 2007, the cyber criminals had already taken possession of more than 95 million people’s credit card information. The main protagonist of this impressive attack was the legendary American hacker Albert Gonzales, who later was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Read More
669 Words | 3 Pages

One issue is the moral ramifications of a site that promotes affairs between married individuals of consenting age. The other issue is the technical side of trusting a service provider to securely store and, if need be, remove individual’s private information. In this essay there will be a focus on the technical side as to oppose the moral dilemma. While this paper in no way condones or promotes cheating on a significant other, that issue is still being decided by two consenting adults, let them decide on the specifics. It was made clear that the group that was involved with the hack cited moral issues, the group never the less, did send notice of their intentions, exposing a technical flaw, and Ashley Madison was slow to

Read More
482 Words | 2 Pages

Hackers can integrate into all systems and spoil them. In my point of view, although technology can be helpful to detect There are two opposite viewpoints about the effect of technology progression on crime rate. Some people believe that it reduces offence while others consider it as a crime inducer. In my opinion, the improvement of technology facilitates the enhancement of crime more than the prevention of it. On one hand, the development of technology can prevent criminals, for example some camera systems have been invented by which police can detect the cars which are owned by theft or careless drivers so it would be a tough challenge for them to

Read More
902 Words | 4 Pages

Literature Review Introduction My chosen topic from Alec Ross’s book "Industries of the Future Chapter 4:The Weaponization of Code” centers around the dangers of malicious hackers and how major companies can be protected from cyber attacks that can lead to leaks of their customers’ private data. As someone who has seen individuals close to me fall victim to corporate data leaks, I feel as though it is my responsibility to make a strategy that could prevent such damage from being done. As our world becomes more connected to the Internet, we risk letting sensitive information falling into the wrong hands.

Read More
460 Words | 2 Pages

With the increase in technology, databases containing personal consumer information will only become more susceptible to hackers, leaving consumers to continue to face unfortunate risks of harm and economic injury, with the uncertainty of whether they can gain recourse in court. Because of the growing split in the lower courts over whether individuals whose personal information had been stolen as the result of a data breach have Article III standing to sue companies who failed to adequately protect the data of consumers, the Supreme Court needs to tackle this issue and bridge the gap between the circuits. Experts predict that hackers are gaining new and creative ways to take advantage of “this constant collection of personal data.” With such risk and uncertainty surrounding liability for data breaches, the Supreme Court’s

Read More
2112 Words | 9 Pages

Hacking is a very powerful tool that has been abused and easily could be

Read More
2146 Words | 9 Pages

Theft of information occurs when a hacker illegally copies and sells computer software. Information

Read More
1813 Words | 8 Pages

When something is uploaded to the internet, it will never disappear; it will always be there this is why a way to protect people’s content is needed. However, information is always filtered this is why practically all speakers agreed upon the lack of mechanisms to ensure the protection of privacy and the privacy of Internet users. As a counter to all that most users try to use secure websites like google or yahoo. However, behind big enterprises like google or yahoo there is a brutal business going on; they are trading with people’s information, selling it to third parties, because they have copyrighted rights. The web sites that were supposedly trust wordy are the ones that are going against people liberty by using a fake sense of

Read More
822 Words | 4 Pages

Cyber Crime is defined according to Techopedia as a crime in which the computer is the object or tool used to commit an offence such as child pornography and theft. Cybercriminals may use computer technology to access personal information and business trade secrets for exploitive or malicious purposes. Criminals may also use computers to spread viruses, interfere with communication and control document or data storage. Criminals who engage in such illegal activities are known as hackers. In addition, cybercrime may also be referred to as computer crime.

Read More

More about Ashley Madison Case

Related Topics

Open Document