Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me

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http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-members-have.html

Monday, 24 August 2015

I found myself in somewhat of a unique position last week: I’d made the 
Ashley Madison data searchable for verified subscribers of Have I been 
pwned? (HIBP) [1] and now – perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect – I was 
being inundated with email. I mean hundreds of emails every day with 
people asking questions about the data. Not just asking questions, but 
often giving me their life stories as well.

These stories shed a very interesting light on the incident, one that most 
people are not privy to and one that doesn’t come across in the 
sensationalist news stories which have flooded every media outlet in 
recent days. When sent to me as an unknown third party in a (usually) 
foreign location, people tended to be especially candid and share stories 
that really illustrate the human impact of this incident. I thought I’d 
share some of those here – de-identified of course – to help people 
understand the real world impact of this incident and ’for those caught up 
in it to realise that they’re among many others going through the same 
pain.

I responded to every legitimate email I received. Very early on I wrote up 
a Q&A and the following is the canned response I sent in response to 
almost every query:

  My apologies for not being able to respond to you personally, I'm
  addressing questions of this nature via a Q&A you can find here:
  http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-data-breach-q.html

Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me:

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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