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Comment by MasterScrat | Hacker News Reader

> two unconfirmed reports of suicides

Maybe we should wait until we have some kind of confirmation before discussing this?

From the story:

    Two Ashley Madison clients are reported to have taken
    their lives after hackers published their details 
    according to police in Canada.

While police certainly can make mistakes and even tell lies, this sounds like confirmation to me.

Yes now it does, article was edited since my first comment.

I imagine it will be next to impossible to conclusively prove that AM was the reason for the suicides, so the best anyone can say is that the two events coincided.

I'm sure it didn't help either.

If they left notes behind, it's pretty conclusive.

It is crystal clear that Mainstream media has been chomping at the bit to release the "fallout of the AM hacks" type story. These stories generate clicks - whether true or not.

But by then the news cycle may be over! Gotta get in before the deadline.

This topic is touched on in the Krebs article released today (which includes information from the Toronto PD press release), in that the Toronto PD are investigating...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110649

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