Ashley Madison hack: Leakg personal email addrs puts gay liv at risk around the world | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

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• WHERE 1,296 GAY ASHLEY MADISON ERS FACE PRISON, FLOGGG, EXECUTN
• DON’T THK THE ASHLEY MADISON HACK AFFECTS THE GAY COMMUNY? THK AGA!
• ASHLEY MADISON HACK: LEAKG PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRS PUTS GAY LIV AT RISK AROUND THE WORLD
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY AMSTERDAM

WHERE 1,296 GAY ASHLEY MADISON ERS FACE PRISON, FLOGGG, EXECUTN

What about people who ed Ashley Madison to engage gay affairs? The webse's ers were worldwi, and there are 79 untri where homosexualy is illegal.

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DON’T THK THE ASHLEY MADISON HACK AFFECTS THE GAY COMMUNY? THK AGA!

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ASHLEY MADISON HACK: LEAKG PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRS PUTS GAY LIV AT RISK AROUND THE WORLD

The ncerns are not jt merely theoretil, the Ashley Madison hack self is havg potentially dangero repercsns for the gay muny and is an example of the dangers of such hacks.

The Inpennt and Sky News have both reported that the Ashley Madison hack has put gay liv at risk around the world.

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This clus the personal rmatn of ers that live untri where homosexualy is illegal and even punishable by ath.

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There is even anecdotal evince that a gay Sdi natnal who feared beg stoned to ath as a rult of the hack has fled Sdi Arabia. As more tails of the leak e to light, is likely that even more gay or bisexual men will be exposed and potentially face great risk as a rult.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsGay and bisexual ers of the Ashley Madison fily webse have been left fear for their liv after emerged that the inti of ers livg untri where homosexualy is illegal and even punishable by ath have been posted of Ashley Madison’s “Down Low” se, which ters for “married men seekg other men for sual, no-strgs fun”, are among the 37 ln acunt holrs whose tails – and sexual preferenc – have been ma public by hackers this gay domas owned by Ashley Madison whose ers are ntaed the huge data dump clu ManCnch along wh We Know Down Low. Homosexual relatnships or sex rema illegal around 75 untri around the world, cludg many stat the Middle East, Ai, Southeast Asia, and almost all of the Caribbean. Equal rights mpaigners said the publitn of such sensive rmatn was puttg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people at risk July, at the time of the Ashley Madison hack, one gay Sdi natnal posted a msage on the Redd webse sayg he was sure he would be stoned to ath when the data was published.