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New apps allow smartphone users to report suspected crimes directly to law enforcement, but what does being watched 2. Apple unveils i. Phone XPlay Video. Dont Play. Apple unveils i. Phone XApple unveils i. Phone XA decade on from the launch of the original i. Phone, Apple has rolled out its much anticipated i. Phone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge to edge display. Ashley Maddison hack and your privacy. People should be very careful about using the private information of others who have been leaked by hackers, privacy experts say. What is Ashley Madison Ashley Madison is an online dating site for people looking to have extramarital affairs. Its slogan is Life is short. Have an affair, and it claims to be the most famous name in infidelity and married dating. It is owned by Canadian company Avid Life Media ALM, which owns two other hookup sites, Cougar Life and Established Men. Whats the deal with the hack thats been in the newsOn July 2. Ashley Madisons corporate and user databases, gaining access to highly sensitive information about the company and its more than 3. The hacked details were initially posted as a large torrent file on a web page accessible via the anonymous Tor network, which requires a special web browser to access. The details included names of members, their email and postal addresses, phone numbers, credit card details, profile information and the content of personal messages, as well as maps of company servers, employee network account information and salary data, and company bank account data. In ensuing weeks, personal details have gradually been leaked onto public facing message boards as well, including those of Australians. Who did this, and why The group which claims to be behind the hack calls itself Impact Team. Little is known other than that its an anonymous group with a massive vendetta against Ashley Madison and Established Men, which it also claims to have hacked back in July. Impact Team has described itself as Ashley Madisons worst f ing nightmare. It appears to view its criminal actions as a moral good, designed to ruin Ashley Madison and teach its members a lesson. It claims it conducted the hack specifically because Ashley Madison was charging users a 1. The practice, which Impact Team described as extortionist, raised US1. Are the leaked details legitimate While ALM is not confirming the legitimacy of the hack, several security researchers have been able to link information in the data dump to the infidelity site. Security blogger Brian Krebs confirmed with three sources that emails and credit cards used on the site had shown up in the dump. American Serial Killer Statistics Fbi. Experts Robert Graham and Troy Hunt also claim to have verified the data with sources. However, Ashley Madison does not verify email addresses when members sign up, so an email address exposed in the hack is not necessarily an implication of the account holders use of the site. It just means someone accessed the site with their email address. Cheating is wrong dont people deserve to be outedFirstly, keep in mind some victims of the hack whose personal details were leaked online may not actually have signed up to the service themselves. The security blog of Graham Cluley also points out that some members may not have been cheaters in the true sense. They may have signed up not to have an affair but out of curiosity, or for a laugh or they may have joined years ago when they were single the site has been around since 2. But even for members who did pursue infidelity, the act of outing them through such a brutal and illegal breach of privacy raises serious ethical questions. Broadcasting an individuals involvement with the site leaves them vulnerable to judgement from members of the public, employers, and other people who may lack understanding of the context, and who would otherwise not be privy to such personal information. Some commentators have warned of the potential for very damaging personal consequences to victims of the hack, from online bullying, to breaking up families, and even suicide. What is Avid Life Media doing about the hackThe company is co operating with US authorities to find the hackers and is adjusting its policies for deleting data at users requests. It has released a statement saying negativity should be focused on the hackers rather than the members whose details were stolen. This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality, the statement said. It is an illegal action against the individual members of Ashley. Madison. com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities. The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. What are the wider implications We hear of privacy breaches in the news perennially, but the moral themes underpinning this one are arguably unique. Hunt, the security expert, warns that details leaked from the hack  such as sexual desires  could be used for blackmail because of their sensitive and personal nature. Journalist Christopher Hayes points out the implications of the attack are far reaching given the size and scope of the breach. Forget Ashley Madison, for a moment, and replace it with medical records. Your full income tax returns. Your inbox, he tweeted. The event serves as yet another example to organisations of the damaging consequences of a security breach. For individuals, sadly, its a reminder that whenever we hand over our personal details online, there is always the slim chance theyll fall into the wrong hands.