Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

July 7, 2023
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How to know if what you’re doing is considered blackhat or not in shady situations?

For context, I’m quiet active in various hacking forums and I really don’t want to mess up with people’s pocessions and I just want to build and sell white hat tools for a user base consisting mainly of hackers .

Sadly I keep getting into situations where I don’t know where to draw the line anymore. For instance, building a twitch follow bot is obviously unethical, but what about a twitch chatbot that sends messages to a streamer’s chat? It seemed harmless to me so I built and sold it, and now I feel kinda guilty about it because it can be used to spam (and ruin) a streamers’ chat.

Another example is reposting leaks that are already public, I’m doing this to boost my reputation in those forums , and I’m not sure if it’s unethical or not.( Yes it is bad, but those people were hacked anyway).

And so on and so forth, everyday fellow users on these forums ask me to build stuff that I’m not sure is ethical, and I don’t want to cause any damage by “letting things slide”. What are your thoughts on this?

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July 7, 2023
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