>Does the release of the information affect your business?
Yes, I had customers asked to close the accounts: "My info had been hacked/compromised [no one specified Ashley Madison, but, you guess the timing...], please close my account. I am also canceling my credit card and getting a new one. I will then create a new account".
>Do you see any business opportunities as a result of the dump?
Nothing legal I can see...
>Will it be good or bad for the industry overall?
Bad. Since, I can't see a single reason why is good.
>Anything else you think is worth mentioning?
About the credit cards, the hackers said that they got that info not in Ashley Madison servers, but by logging in with user/password to the billers accounts (like, entering Epoch or CCbill), this is probably where the incomplete (partially masked) number would come from.
Except no more customers... even if they got savings, financially the company should be wiped out and possibly owners end in debt:
Ashley Madison Faces $578 Million Class-Action Lawsuit
http://www.inc.com/associated-press/...n-lawsuit.html
NO problem to find legal substance on damages... there's already extortion emails "pay with bitcon or we tell your wife" mails:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/...madison-users/
Some data: 28 million men versus 5 million women. just 14 percent of users on the site appeared to be women, "But ... repeatedly claimed Ashley Madison’s users were half men and half women in its key demographic":
Ashley Madison Hack Exposes (Wait for It) a Lousy Business | WIRED
But... " A former employee filed a lawsuit against the company claiming damages for wrist injuries caused while creating “1,000 fake female” profiles for the site’s launch in Brazil. ", so what's the real womens number?
I think the most stuff to come it will be christian, conservative activists, politicians names coming out. Here another christian evangelist:
Viral Christian Pregnancy YouTuber Sam Rader Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account