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Having An Affair May Shorten Your Life: The Ashley Madison Suicides, Sakinah N. Jones
Having An Affair May Shorten Your Life: The Ashley Madison Suicides, Sakinah N. Jones
Georgia State University Law Review
Ashley Madison is an online dating service originally designed for people in committed relationships who want to cheat on their partners. In 2015, the website claimed to be “100% discreet.” Ashley Madison’s FAQs promised that its users would never compromise their “safety, privacy or security” and would never have to reveal their identities unless they chose to.
Ashley Madison’s concept attracted over forty million ostensibly anonymous members to its site. In July 2015, a group calling itself The Impact Team (Impact) hacked into Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, Inc. (Avid Life), breaching its security walls and reaching directly …