Ashley Madison, the dating site promoting adultery in their slogan “Life is short. Have an affair.” got hacked in July 2015. Millions of customers’ most intimate details were released in August 2015 by the hackers, after the service owners refused to close down business. As the biggest public breach of sensitive personal information ever, there are many lessons to be learned in terms of data protection, hacktivism, crisis management, media handling, and pitfalls that must be avoided. All this told from a very personal perspective, and with a background story showing the real value of good security & privacy for all.
Per Thorsheim is the founder of PasswordsCon. Among other things he revealed Linkein were hacked in 2012, confirmed the Ashley Madison leaks in 2015, and played a role in making the major webmail providers implement RFC 3207 STARTTLS support to better protect your privacy. He does training for news reporters on digital security & privacy, source protection and reader/customer privacy. @thorsheim