The decline of American morals, ethics and values / Today’s Navy

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Associated Press / August 19, 2015

Hackers have released personal information belonging to millions of users of the adultery website AshleyMadison.com, including some 15,000 e-mail addresses linked to government and military e-mail addresses.

The data dump included about 1,700 accounts linked to addresses ending in “navy.mil” – a domain used by both sailors and civilian Navy employees – and hundreds more tied to specific Navy ships and commands.

For example, the dump included 29 profiles registered to e-mail addresses ending in “cvn75.navy.mil.” That’s the domain used by the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). More than 250 accounts were linked to carrier domains alone.

The data included e-mail addresses tied to every aircraft carrier and virtually every amphibious assault ship and destroyer in the fleet.

E-mail addresses also include the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the House and the Senate.

A message posted by the hackers accused Ashley Madison’s owners of deceit and incompetence and said the company had refused to bow to their demands to close the site.

“Now everyone gets to see their data,” the statement said.

Defense officials wouldn’t immediately confirm whether the military addresses were valid, but the volume of official-sounding military and government accounts suggest that many are legit.

Using a .mil e-mail account or government computer to access pornography or other sexually explicit content is prohibited by military regulations. Violators can be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which also outlaws adultery.

Ashley Madison has long courted attention with its claim to be the Internet’s leading facilitator of extramarital liaisons, boasting of having nearly 39 million members and that “thousands of cheating wives and cheating husbands sign up every day looking for an affair.”

Analysts who have scanned the data believe it is genuine.

TrustedSec Chief Executive Dave Kennedy said the information dump included full names, passwords, street addresses, credit card information and “an extensive amount of internal data.”

Errata Security Chief Executive Rob Graham said the information released included details such as users’ height, weight and GPS coordinates.

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Where is the oversight? Who's watching our employees in Washington?

Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet connections in their federal offices to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.

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