Ashley Madison is a Canada-based online dating service and social networking service marketed to people who are married. Its slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair." The website was started in 2001. It has more than 124 million visits per month. The company made headlines on July 15, 2015, when hackers stole all of its customer data and threatened to post all the data online unless Ashley Madison and partner Avid Life Media site EstablishedMen.com shut down. All of the user data was leaked on August 18, 2015. According to the BBC 2 people have committed suicide after the release of the information. Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 reward for information on the hackers. 33 million accounts were stolen from the website. "This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world and is very unique on its own in that it exposed tens of millions of people's personal information," said the Police chief of Toronto. Please Pray for the families involved in this.
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