Top suspect in Ashley Madison’s hack apparently committed suicide 1 year earlier

We were around, although not as TSB, but as the tech blog and podcast during the Ashley Madison hack.

To me, the whole thing just seemed weird. Recently, Hulu published a documentary on the subject, whether I’ll sign up just for one show is beyond me seeing that I already have an account they don’t know about or something.

Here is the blog post on the Ashley Madison breach.

Brian indicates that this is going to be an ongoing series, as he even learned more about this breach. He even links to his older blog posts on the subject.

The first paragraph says:

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

The article talks about the fact that the documentary started airing the day the article was published, and goes through other stuff too.

Maybe this might be of interest to you. Brian’s first article updating users on what’s going on with this breach is titled Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014 and I hope that people find this of value like I did. The whole case was quite interesting.