No one should ever consider themselves a universal judge like this and what the hackers have done is terrible and could wreck lives.

Here's an example: A few months back my girlfriend said she had created an Ashley Madison account with a friend on a bored Saturday night to see if any of their co-workers were on there, one guy in particular who was always having affairs at work. She didn't pay anything, and didn't pay to have her registration deleted. Now, if she hadn't told me before and only told me this when the leak came out I would have potentially suspected her for being a past cheater. It could have created suspicion and ruined an otherwise happy relationship, without grounds.

Beyond examples of false blame, who knows what reasons people have. Perhaps a wife has lost all libido and granted her husband permission to have a discrete affair. The public knowledge could crush her. Even for those truly caught in the act, I've known women (and men) who had break downs after the whole community found out their sig other was a cheater. Can you imagine if the whole world knew? This could lead to suicide of not only cheaters, but victims of cheating too.

The hacking is evil, stupid, and will cause more harm than any of the cheaters ever did. The culprit is an idiot for thinking they are fit to judge and deal out justice. And this is coming from someone who despises cheating.

I find this very odd, the thought that some things are better off being lied about forever and that the family would be better off not knowing that someone was spending their families incoming to have sex with another married person... it's nuts.

Would be like someone having a go at the courts for bringing people up for fraud... like everyone was fine with it until the damn courts said about it, how dare they ruin lives of people who cheat!! like I said, nuts imo.

It's hard to care, honestly. All this news of an obscure website being hacked is really over exaggerated.

But actions like cheating always have potential consequences, and people who perform such actions can't complain when their risk didn't go as they liked. It's their own doing.

I have my personnal information on my internet provider website, Microsoft website, Google... my bank... my phone provider, netflix, etc... and I suspect it the same in your case if you are a normal adult living out there... At least it is the case of the majority of people.

Nothing stupid here... It is just normal and expectd.

Not everyone who used this site cheated, a lot of Homosexuals in countries where they would be killed or ostracized and this hack has put all of those people in danger.

Even for the cheaters, it's none of our business.

Modern marriage is marriage. A creation. That doesn't mean that family is a modern invention. Humans saw that building a family had better chances of survival and having better offspring. Men, much like apes, have "defense" mechanisms against infidelity like stronger sperm than other men, having more desire for the spouse after a long time without seeing her because of fear of her being with other men and building more sperm in the testicles to defeat the other men's sperm.

Also, why do you keep shaming men? Are you that feminist that you think women should be put in a pedestal and all the shit they do is because the man was a wuss? Or do you just think you, as a man, is an irrational primate that can justify his actions because of this and can't help him?

Your response is not what I said.  I never said that things are better being lied about.  What I am saying, is that's for the individual situations and liers to sort out, not some idiot in a basement on a computer who knows nothing about the situation.  Ask yourself this question:

Who  did a worse act:

-A man who cheated on his wife.

-A man who revealed information, the result of which caused 27 suicides, combined centuries of sadness and depression to harmed individuals, 100s of children who had difficult lives due to broken homes and depressed parents, perhaps resulting in their own drug addictions or crimes, and thousands more broken formerly healthy relationships for no reason because of individuals who had used Ashley Madison as a joke or possibly had their email stolen.

I'm not saying no-knowledge, no-harm.  What I'm saying is it's not the place of an interenet hacker to decide, and there is no question the hacker's actions will directly result in far more real-world harm.

And you sound(wave) like a broken record because...

I live in Canada.  I don't care about the 21 states that decided it was illegal.  And I never said adultery was fine. All I'm saying is that hackers and social justice warriors on the internet have no right to decide what is and isn't fine and enact some punishment.

What gives you the authority to determine what's moral and what isn't?