The alarming news of suicide, blackmail and threats result of theft and disclosure of Ashley Madison users have spurred the efforts of police around the world to identify the perpetrators of the robbery.
The Canadian Police has requested the assistance of other police organizations around the world, especially the American FBI, given the magnitude and the serious repercussions that are taking the theft of data up to 39 million users ashleymadison.com.
In addition to the police authorities, the bodies responsible for ensuring the security of private information of citizens of Canada, Australia and other countries have also launched their own investigations, evidence of the magnitude of “hacking”.
The Toronto Police to investigate the theft because the parent company, Avid Life Media, is based in the Canadian city, he revealed on Monday that two recent suicides may be linked to the disclosure of private information.
The Canadian police would not say whether the suicides had occurred in Canada or elsewhere, as the millions of users of Ashley Madison, a site popular for married people to have extramarital encounters, come from dozens of countries.
But US media reported that one of the dead is a police officer in the Texas town of San Antonio.
The two alleged suicides are the tip of iceberg theft have created databases of Ashley Madison, whose motto is “Life is short. Have an affair “, and its subsequent dissemination on the Internet.
The Canadian police have also warned that criminal groups are doing with the stolen by a group of hackers called Team Impact to blackmail clients Ashley data Madison.
In other cases, the “entrepreneurs” promise to remove cyberspace, in exchange for money, compromising data revealing the identity of users of Ashley Madison.
But the Police Superintendent Toronto Bryce Evans said during a press conference Monday in Toronto anyone hopes up and fall into the trap of this promise because “no one will be able to delete that information.”
“The effect of the actions of Impact Team has and will continue social and long-term economic impacts. And derivatives have already generated more crimes and victimization, “added Evans
A whole Impact Team irony that as their intention was to provoke the closure of Ashley Madison for ethical reasons. By hackers, Avid Life Media lives “prostitution / trafficking”.
Among those affected by the data breach are known personalities, some of them known for their religious activism.
In the United States, one of the names they have been made public is that of Josh Duggar, a familiar face on television in the country to be part of “reality show” “19 Kids and Counting” following the experiences of marriage Duggar and their 19 children.
Duggar, who is also a political and religious activist and this year and was the center of controversy by revealing that when he was a teenager molested five girls, including four of his sisters, acknowledged that was user Ashley Madison and cheated on his wife.
British media have reported that among the celebrities included in the databases of Ashley Madison are a Hollywood actor, a player and football known politician.
Other media have named other US television personalities and several of them have had to step out of the rumors, denied its association with the web of infidelity.
But Beyond the rumors, as the superintendent said Evans, theft and disclosure of data of Ashley Madison has opened a Pandora’s box that will be impossible to contain despite the reward of US $ 377.000 which now offers Avid Life Media.
According to preliminary analysis, for example, at least 1 million accounts belonging to British web users.
In the United States, the databases include at least 15,000 email addresses belonging to military or government departments servers.
And in Canada, at least 500 e-mail users Ashley Madison belong to NGOs. The company itself has acknowledged that one of every five residents of Ottawa, the capital city, where hundreds of foreign diplomats live, a member of its services.
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