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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I am unaware of the specifics of the Ashley Madison hack but it is my understanding, to the best of my knowledge, that the hack did not involve usable customer credit card data but only truncated credit card data, e.g.; xxx-xxx-xxx-123, that is all that I have read. That being the case, I would expect no changes in PCI-DSS standards from this event.
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I agree. I've done a lot of PCI work at different levels and PCI standards really care about the storage and access of credit card data and associated records. Unless the standard has changed in the last few years there's nothing here that would throw up a flag at credit card companies because the standards did what they were supposed to.
As to the rest of it... I wonder about those 37M email addresses out there and whether it will damage the value of mailing lists. My background with gay dating sites showed that there's a huge amount of crossover with most people having accounts on multiple platforms. Does the release of those emails impact other straight dating sites?
I don't believe any long term damage will be done as news cycles are so fast that it will be forgotten beyond the leak damaging some public figures. There's very little real dialogue regarding how it could personally effect people, it's a little too juicy and salacious pointing at those other perverts. The topic of the site, extramarital affairs, also puts this in the 'other' category for most people. Outside the industry I don't think that people see adult dating in the same place as porn, so it'll be interesting to see if there are shockwaves felt beyond AM.