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In July 2015, a group of hackers calling themselves the Impact Team broke into a Canadian company's website, stealing its user database and eight years of transaction records. A few weeks later they began posting online the personal information of more than 30 million customers. Data breaches are not uncommon, but the company in question was Ashley Madison, whose business model was based on arranging extramarital liaisons under the slogan 'Life is short. Have an affair.' The details posted included not only names and billing information but sexual preferences and fantasies. The breach was initially greeted with a degree of schadenfreude: a bunch of adulterers were getting what they deserved. Yet as journalists pored over the data looking for celebrity gossip, a different news story developed. An online magazine known primarily for science fiction and tech scoops dug deeper and revealed that the frisson of scandal might have been misplaced. The vast majority of interactions on AshleyMadison.com were not between adulterous couples but between humansalmost all of whom were maleand bots. 'This isn't a debauched wonderland of men cheating on their wives,' Annalee Newitz wrote in Gizmodo

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN