Sex, Lies and Scandal: The Ashley Madison hack, what happened and who was exposed
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new documentary exploring the data breach that exposed millions of affairs, wrecked marriages and destroyed lives is dropping on Netflix.
Extramarital dating app Ashley Madison saw users' private data become public when it was hacked in 2015. The controversial 'married dating' site was the first of its kind, founded by Canadian businessman Darren Morgenstern in 2001.
He had been inspired by a statistic that claimed 30% of people on existing dating sites were married. Ashley Madison enticed droves of users looking for excitement with the tagline: "Life is short.
Have an affair." The site claimed, due to its discreet nature, to have extensive security measures - but the data breach and its fallout proved otherwise.
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