The hackers are at fault. The website is negligent. The users of the Ashley Madison service are 100% victims.

All the "holier than thou" moral police who think these people deserved their fate are disgusting people. Mind your own business and realize that people were victims of a crime. Last I checked, infidelity wasn't a crime, while hacking and stealing sensitive information most certainly is.

The hackers stole personal information.
The cheaters cheated their wives/husbands.
The website allowed both.

Punishment for everyone!

I'm so fucking glad it happened. I hate cheaters with a passion and think they deserve every horrible thing that happens to them. Shouldn't have been scum fucks in the first place. I hope their lives are ruined for that choice that they made. I honestly feel no remorse. They're dirty, filthy, rotten pieces of trash.

I guess justice through inconvential means is now considered a bad thing to do. Damn you hackers! Trying to bring fairness to people for nothing in exchange but their own demise, what a bunch of losers.

I hope with this people starts getting that what they put on the interwebz can always end up public.
Company is at fault for it's security flaws too.
And of course these hacking white knights are as retarded as it gets.

2 wrongs don't make a right.

The true victims are the spouses.

I think it's just karma really.

Hopefully this expiernce will make the cheaters take a long hard look at themselves and try to fix whatever's wrong in their relationship next time round rather than simply looking for affairs.

Infidelity isn't a crime? Oh so that is how you measure your morality, whether or not something is against the law. The law is the end all be all of morality, you guys. The cheaters are victims. Absolutely incredible philosophy here. What about the REAL victims, huh? The people who actually get cheated on. THOSE are the victims, not these scummy pieces of filth living a double life and ruining families for their own selfish gain. What a morally bankrupt perspective. I find what you wrote here to be absolutely disgusting

I don't condone hacking, but we live in a world where one must expect that all digital information is susceptible to hacking. That being said, if you are doing something wrong with digital information (to cheat, falsely guaranteeing security of, or stealing), you bear the burden of the consequences. This is a reality, and to play the victim is to play the fool.

Why is everyone focused on the cheaters?

You guys can't possibly think it's karma that a caring spouse might find out that they have been cheated on via gossip spread at work that's posted all over the internet? Can you?

This can potentially ruin the true victims lives as well.