[HN Gopher] SEO expert hired and fired by Ashley Madison turned ...
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       SEO expert hired and fired by Ashley Madison turned on company
       promising revenge
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-07-13 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
        
       | meepmorp wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | dang wrote:
         | OK, but can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to
         | HN? We're trying for something different here.
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
       | yieldcrv wrote:
       | This time they should just randomly leak a user's info once per
       | week for the next couple years
       | 
       | So that it stays in the news cycle
       | 
       | last time the hacker's big release of everyone at the same time
       | fell out of the collective conscious too fast for it to be that
       | interesting or impactful against the users.
       | 
       | the most it did was reveal that there werent enough real women in
       | the website and many NPCs, so enterprising sex workers signed up
       | to fill the market void, turning the site into a success and
       | saving the company from fraud claims.
        
         | pinkcan wrote:
         | > impactful against the users
         | 
         | dude, what?
         | 
         | People committed suicide the last time this shit happened.
         | 
         | Maybe redirect your outrage at the company's executives?
        
           | yieldcrv wrote:
           | I'm explaining marketing 101 because a lot of hackers fail at
           | it
           | 
           | Build hype, keep the hype
           | 
           | Doing giant dumps doesnt work
           | 
           | I'm not factoring in whatever you're worried about and have
           | no animosity towards any parties involved
        
         | kibibu wrote:
         | I don't think hackers should release people's private
         | information at all
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | > the most it did was reveal that there werent enough real
         | women in the website and many NPCs, so enterprising sex workers
         | signed up to fill the market void, turning the site into a
         | success and saving the company from fraud claims.
         | 
         | How did this work for the sex workers? At some point, they need
         | to bring up "getting paid" and that's not going to be a
         | comfortable conversation given the client expectations.
        
       | bonestamp2 wrote:
       | Has this story ever been turned into a dramatic TV series or
       | film? Or maybe a thriller, or even a comedy (based on how bad
       | this guy is at being a criminal)?
        
         | HWR_14 wrote:
         | Hulu just released an Ashley Madison series. So, yes.
        
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