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Paying $20 to delete your Ashley Madison profile was probably a bad idea

Ashley Madison is a dating website for married people to find accomplices in extra-marital affairs. A hacker group broke into the site and found that users’ details aren’t actually deleted after the $20 fee. A year ago, Ars ran this article looking into how Ashley Madison tricks people into thinking they need to pay $20 to have their profile information deleted. But when you go to delete your account, you are presented with two options: Full Delete or Hide My Profile The only benefit of “Full Delete” was that it removed messages from other users’ inboxes.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/cheaters-hook-up-site-ashley-madison-makes-account-deletion-confusing/

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