The website was at fault and the users deserved to be exposed for cheating on their wives.

imo, i think its  very horrible, the only things i consider worse, is like killing, torturing and abusing someone or many people,

So you think they should have went through millions of user accounts (which I highly doubt included a next of kin contact information) and dig into other sites personal information to try to get contact information for people related to those in the site they hacked, probably requiring hacking many many many other sites in the process?

I think they way they announced it is pretty much the only avenue they had to get the info out there and to give an eyeopener to those who had considered sites like this one for cheating that the internet doesn't make you invisible, moreso the oppisite.

couldnt care less?

If it wasn't mentioned already to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery#Adultery_and_the_law it is a crime in many places. a lot of US states have it criminalized and also in loads of other countries it can be cited as reasons for divorce often favouring the "cheated on" partner in terms of possession of the assets/kids.

Adultery isn't fine because a site selling it said it's fine to do, that's bad logic.

What really rubbed me the wrong way was the message from the hackers when they released the information, saying it was to punish the company and the cheaters for their lack of morality. Who the hell made them the masters and arbiters of morality?

As always with hackers there's a definite narcissism fueling their god complex that I find every bit as disturbing, if not more so, than the people they're outting for one thing or another.

I am a person who has been personally affected by infidelity, mind you, but the way to deal with it is not to have some narcissistic anonymous person in a distant living room reveal said information, including things like kinks and financial information, to the world. It is no one's damn business and you're doing as much damage to the cheated-on as you do the cheater. Everyone responds differently to the situation, and it needn't be broadcast for their entire community to see which humiliates all involved.

I do wonder how many of those men even succeeded in cheating given it appears to be over 90% male. Regardless, I hope they're able to identify some of the people behind this and I find it abhorrent that mainstream media are actually combing through the list in search of famous people when said list has been made public through illegal means. We all claim to desire privacy but the moment there are leaks, be it these, personal emails, celeb pictures etc, they're thrown on TV and discussed ad nauseum. While the hackers may be behind these releases, it wouldn't matter were there not a waiting and eager audience. They make hypocrites of us all, essentially.

To conclude: cheating is immoral, hacking is immoral, involving yourself in the private matters of others is immoral, and, according to John Oliver, Ottawa is a doomed city.

I don't think cheating is a remotely acceptable thing but this is not a healthy form of justice and is a very dangerous precedent if people accept it. These hackers don't have to follow the law. They could do this on anything. Next they could reveal everyone who watches disabled dwarf porn. This must stop before they achieve that, dammit people!!!!!!

Your avatar looks like that image is just now flashing through his mind.

The thing is years ago when the main source of porn was in stuff like playboy magazines people would be a little more reserved because to get access to it they had to go into a newsagent and buy it in public, now that you can get it online while hidden away in their homes it means that people have sort of lost the shame element to what their looking at, I'm sure if midget porn was on the shelf next to playboys it wouldn't have been picked up half as much as it is watched online.

Not really sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that people can freely watch stuff online guilt free now, but maybe this AshleyMadison hack will make people think twice before jumping on stuff like this online, just because your newsagent isn't giving you judging looks while buying it now... doesn't meant it isn't immoral.

Was thinking the same thing actually lol. "must get home to destroy modem before wife reaches internet history!!!"