Toronto police report two suicides

Toronto police report two suicides associated with Ashley Madison hack

Unconfirmed reports suggest that two people in Toronto have killed themselves over the Ashley Madison hack, local police said in a briefing providing details about the beginning of the leak.

“As of this morning, we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides that are associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customers’ profiles,” Toronto police service staff superintendent Bryce Evans said at a press conference on Monday.

Evans said the nature of the dating site for married people was “of no interest to us as the investigative teams”.

Security analyst Brian Krebs said last week he feared exactly that outcome. “There’s a very real chance that people are going to overreact. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw people taking their lives because of this, and obviously piling on with ridicule and trying to out people is not gonna help the situation,” Krebs, who first reported the hack, said on Wednesday.

The hack, in which some 33m profiles from the service were published online, has been the focus of extortion and phishing attempts. Among them are “hack checking” websites that compile the emails of the curious entered into them and then send malicious software to those emails.

Evans also said that a new scam, claiming to erase names from the Ashley Madison database in order to preserve users’ privacy, had sprung up in the few days since the hack.

“By clicking on these links, you are exposing your computer to adware, spyware, malware and viruses,” Evans said. “Multiple sites have now downloaded [the Ashley Madison user database] and are present. Nobody is going to be able to erase that information. There are confirmed cases of people trying to extort Ashley Madison clients.”

Oh boy ! you try for secret punani and end up comitting suicide...

Fellahs rale scared of dem Wifey  ;D


this is NOT good for the institution called "Marriage"

Ironical is int it? . Hackers who are trying to shut down a cheating site are criminals and  those namely Ashley Madison who are promoting cheating on spouses are victims

This is shocking that two people committed suicide due to profiles hacked and could of been worried, that their personal information was released and must of shocked them for them to do this. I reckon an investigation needs to be done and find out the causes and also the families would want justice as well, and want to know what happened and how the hackers did this crime. I reckon that people need to be careful with the information, they put on their profile and also check if the sites are secured and also well made too.

I hope that no one ever hacks this site and steal our information  ;D