What is the Ashley Madison Hack?

Ashley Madison is an anonymous online dating website. This site allows people from all over the world to meet over the internet and have an affair in secret. From single people to married couples, over 40 million people are signed up for this website all over the world. Ashley Madison hides the user's name and information and insists that the privacy of their users is safe and secured.

In 2015, this website was hacked by a hacking group called the Impact Team who strongly disapproved of the morals of this website. The names, emails, and credit card numbers of each of the users were leaked and exposed on the internet. This hack caused a world wide disturbance from ruined families to jobless people.

The Ashley Madison hack leaked the "secured" private information of all the members on the site all over the internet. A large portion of those who were exposed on the list most likely lost their families and or their jobs, or committed suicide out of despair and embarrassment.

The uproar of the hack, after causing families to break apart, has caused people searching for the Impact Team. With a $500,000 reward and not much information on the team, people today, are still searching for the hacking team.

After insisting safe and secured privacy of their information, the people on the site experience great despair and embarrassment when their name is leaked all over the world.

This just proves that one must not rely on the internet to keep one's privacy secure. Internet safety should always be encouraged and everyone should be worried of their own personal information being leaked.