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Originally Posted by TrashyGirl
There is a huge difference between Home Depot (and Target and other retailers) getting hacked and AM getting hacked. No one was going to be sending Home Depot cc holders blackmail or extortion emails w/ threats of exposing them if they didn't pay up. This is the potential scenario for AM members. It's a sword of Damocles situation that will be hanging over members heads for years to come if/when the data from the hack is put to nefarious use.
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I've yet to hear one reported case of a person being "outed" by the hackers. And let's be honest, how much personal information could they possibly have that is outside the realm of what a Target or Home Depot would have? Credit card number and billing address? Yeah, you had to fill out a profile, but if you didn't use dummy information then you deserve to be drug through the mud, and I'm sure you didn't care much about hiding the affair in the first place.
I'm quite sure most people are protected and there isn't going to be any AM extortion rings popping up overnight. Extortion is a serious crime and usually perpetrated against people who have a serious mistrust of authority figures - such as people here illegally or someone caught doing something illegal. Not people trying to hide infidelity from their spouses.
I bet the hackers got billing information and credit card numbers, and that's it. The type of site this was just made it all the more newsworthy.
