The Lives and Deaths of Ashley Madison
The lede, from Dominique Mosbergen↱:
Pastor Gibson took his own life after being publicly exposed as an adulterer amid leaked data from the infamous Ashley Madison hack.
This is too high a price for such cowardly self-righteousness as the Ashley Madison hack and leak represents. Authorities in Toronto continue investigating links between the data dump and two suicides last month; police Staff Superintendent Bryce Evans used a press conference last month to remind the hackers, "Your actions are illegal and won't be tolerated." CBC↱ reported:
This is already ugly; it's only going to get worse.
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Notes:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "Ashley Madison hack: 2 unconfirmed suicides linked to breach, Toronto police say". CBC News. 24 August 2015. CBC.ca. 9 September 2015. http://bit.ly/1K9YIdH
Mosbergen, Dominique. "New Orleans Pastor Outed In Ashley Madison Hack Commits Suicide". The Huffington Post. 9 September 2015. HuffingtonPost.com. 9 September 2015. http://huff.to/1LXHBLt
The lede, from Dominique Mosbergen↱:
John Gibson, a 56-year-old pastor who taught at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was found dead by his wife, Christi, on August 24 in their on-campus home.
Pastor Gibson took his own life after being publicly exposed as an adulterer amid leaked data from the infamous Ashley Madison hack.
“It was a moment that life doesn't prepare you for,” Christi told CNN this week. “I had to call my kids. How do you tell your kids that their dad is gone and that he took his own life?” ....
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Christi said that being outed “carried such a shame” for her husband.
In a suicide note, “he talked about depression. He talked about having his name on there, and he said he was just very, very sorry,” Christi told CNN. “What we know about him is that he poured his life into other people, and he offered grace and mercy and forgiveness to everyone else, but somehow he couldn’t extend that to himself.”
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Speaking to CNN this week, Christi said she had a “message” for the millions of people impacted by the breach.
“These were real people with real families, real pain and real loss,” she said. But “don't underestimate the power of love. Nothing is worth the loss of a father and a husband and a friend. It just didn't merit it. It didn't merit it at all.”
This is too high a price for such cowardly self-righteousness as the Ashley Madison hack and leak represents. Authorities in Toronto continue investigating links between the data dump and two suicides last month; police Staff Superintendent Bryce Evans used a press conference last month to remind the hackers, "Your actions are illegal and won't be tolerated." CBC↱ reported:
But [Evans] said what's happening to the site's users — who weren't necessarily having affairs – is "no joke."
The nature of Ashley Madison's website, he said, is "of no interest" to investigators and the only criminal wrongdoing in the case has been committed by the hackers.
The nature of Ashley Madison's website, he said, is "of no interest" to investigators and the only criminal wrongdoing in the case has been committed by the hackers.
This is already ugly; it's only going to get worse.
____________________
Notes:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "Ashley Madison hack: 2 unconfirmed suicides linked to breach, Toronto police say". CBC News. 24 August 2015. CBC.ca. 9 September 2015. http://bit.ly/1K9YIdH
Mosbergen, Dominique. "New Orleans Pastor Outed In Ashley Madison Hack Commits Suicide". The Huffington Post. 9 September 2015. HuffingtonPost.com. 9 September 2015. http://huff.to/1LXHBLt