Meeting hacking demands
With cybersecurity top of mind for the regulator after the RI Advice case, Outsider was reminded of one of the most-famous cybersecurity hacks.
This was the hack of Canadian ‘personal’ site Ashley Madison in 2015 which saw names, addresses and credit card information stolen from 30 million users by ‘Impact Team’ and revealed online in a large-scale data dump.
Outsider wasn’t aware this type of website existed but his learned friends inform him that it was a social networking people for married people who were looking to have affairs.
Certainly not the type of information that one would want to see leaked online and Outsider can imagine there would have been a lot of awkward conversations around the kitchen table that morning.
Outsider can’t decide which would be worse; dealing with a hacker demanding a ransom of thousands of dollars or an angry wife demanding an divorce?
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