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A PAIR OF Sydney radio hosts have outed the Ashley Madison account of a suspicious wife’s husband live on air.
It followed the leaking on Tuesday of the personal details of some 32 million users of the affairs website from around the world. A site has since been set up to allow people to search the database for subscribers’ email addresses.
This morning Nova FM radio hosts Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli – whose breakfast programme is the third most-popular in their home market – took a call from a ‘Jo’, who suspected her husband might have something to hide.
“His hours have changed … and when that little thing came on the news about the Ashley Madison hack he sort of went a bit funny,” she said.
I asked him straight up and he said ‘don’t be stupid, we’re married, we’ve got two kids’ and I was like, OK, whatever.”
Fitzgerald then told the women they had put her husband’s into the system and it felt like they were “on Jerry Springer”.
Fitzy & Wippa / Twitter.@FitzySA's awesome creep face. pic.twitter.com/lOERmTqnUD
— Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie (@fitzywippakate) August 19, 2015
“We’re putting them into this website right now and his details have revealed … that he’s actually on the website, Jo,” he said.
“Are you … serious? Are you freakin’ kidding me? These websites are disgusting,” the woman said, before hanging up.
Wipfli had an instant bout of regret, saying: ”Oooh, I don’t know if I should have done that. That hasn’t left me with a good feeling. What a horrible situation to be in.”
The radio spot was enough to leave a few listeners unimpressed, although Fitzgerald remained less apologetic than his co-host.
Mikey Cahill / Twitter.@fitzyandwippa have a good hard look at yourselves. #boneheads
— Mikey Cahîll (@JoeyLightbulb) August 20, 2015
An investigation
Meanwhile, the US FBI has announced it was launching an investigation into the Ashley Madison hack and the subsequent data leak, which the Toronto-based infidelity website called “an act of criminality”.
A group of hackers identified as the “Impact Team” threatened to release the data unless the site was permanently shut down, citing the “fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM (Ashley Madison owner Avid Life Media) and their members”.
The affairs site had been charging users $20 (€18) apiece for its “full delete function” with the promise that it would scrub all personal information in return for the payment.
BuzzFeed reported the function netted the company $2 million (€1.8 million) last year, although the figure came from leaked documents it hadn’t been able to verify.
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What is it with lame Australian DJs?
They couldn’t give a Castlemaine XXXX…
Thousands of love-rats are feeling cheated by the hackers!
They presumably cannot see the IRONY of considering THEMSELVES as the cheated ones!! You ccouldn’t make it up!!
If the spouses being cheated (and their families) could have a vote on whether the sordid secrets of these rats should be kept hidden, what do you think the result would be?
Agreed! They’re complete morons.
@Fraj. I tried making exactly this point in a previous post about this hacking. Where were you to back me up
@ Fraj Tried making exactly this point in a previous post about this hacking. Where were you to back me up! Seems as though I was being too moralistic which isn’t cool anymore. Apparently I’m supposed to be more modern and evolved and not give a sh*t! But I’m with you. So I think that makes us both old fogeys!
@ Patrick:
I’d certainly have backed you up had I spotted your post!
If being “more modern and evolved” means being reluctant to speak the plain truth because it mightn’t be considered “cool”, then like you, I’d rather be considered an “old fogey” too.
It’s far more liberating to tell it as you see it, than to be constrained by the peer pressure of the “cool gang”, whoever they may be!
North Korea and South Korea are exchanging fire. Just thought you might like to know.
Russian Tanks in Moscow! STOP PRESS
That’s actually more newsworthy than this morning’s churnalism.
Realistically, anybody whose family has been ripped apart and publicly embarrassed by hackers in the last few days doesn’t give a flying fig about Korea.
Those of us whose families remain intact do. It’s at least worthy of an article.
You’d think that after causing the suicide of the nurse after prince William was born that Australian DJs would think twice before outing someone
They had nothing to do with that suicide – get a grip.
Jacintha Saldanha left 3 notes before her suicide. 1 specifically blamed the prank for her death, and one other one criticised the hospital’s handling of the situation. While it’s clear that she had other mental health issues going on, you can’t say that the prank had nothing to do with her death, when the suicide notes clearly show that she was preoccupied with it in the immediate time before her death.
The difference being that the nurse was in the wrong place in the wrong time with an unrelated mental health issue, whereas this was a cheating husband whose wife rang in and offered his details with the specific goal of discovering what she did. No matter your opinion, it’s not their fault that his details were there and thus this woman got an answer she wasn’t happy with.
The woman called and specifically asked them to check. It’s awful radio but so are pretty much all evening radio talk shows. There is no link between this and the nurse prank so I don’t know what you’re getting at.
I see it’s not just Irish DJs that are bell ends!
Am I being naive when I state that I would imagine the vast majority of users on this site are voyeuristic and checking up on people rather than using it? And why the hell would anyone register under their own actual names if they were using it for affairs?
If they have to use a credit card to pay, I suppose they might have to use their real names.
Ten minute email, 02 pay as you go credit card, Bob’s your uncle. Poor Bob, think he’s on there.
I reckon any site where users don’t have to use their own name would be weirdo central.
I reckon if you’re the kind of person signing up to a site like Ashley Madison for your affair you’re probably not the type who’s smart enough to know about self destructing email and prepay credit cards…
Good one Beachmaster…or can I just call you Beach? :)
and that’s coming from a person using the alias of “beachmaster”……………ha ha.
welcome to the journal.ie – our weirdo central.
This hack is so brilliant jokes on all the unfaithful love rats now!!
People actually used their real names. Stupid.
Wait, you’re name isn’t GravyTrain?
Get all them cheaters… There’d be women’s names on there too. Husband should call in too.
32 million users caught out, that is one big angry mob, don’t think the hacker team taught this one through, I’m sure at least one of the cheats affected would have the resources to track them down and ruin their lives as well.
my number was just resting in their account
On the morality scale, I’d put cheaters quite a few notches above (A) the entrepreneur who can do any business he wants but chooses to do a website that caters to cheaters and (B) radio hosts outing someone they don’t know on air to get some buzz and ratings. I think most cheaters are people who no longer feel appreciated by their spouse, not evil people getting a perverse kick out of deception
Don’t be jealous that someone found a way of making money out of social media & infidelity.
I’m really looking forward to matching some names on that list with local pillars of society!
I hope he’s sues them for every penny regardless of what he did it was private and not for them to stick their nose in
The husband is a creep, no doubt about it. But he could lose his wife, kids and home because of the big mouth of some dipshlt DJ. The latter shouldn’t be too surprised if he ended up with a hatchet in the face to be honest.
Good enough for him. He took a chance on cheating so suck up the consequences!
those two look like a right pair of tools
guess what’s gonna hit the fan shortly !
They say that the chances of getting ‘lucky’ on any of these websites is slim and none, as allegedly an astonishing 95% of Ashley Madison’s members are men. The majority of women on these websites are also fake, set up to entice gullible men to set up a monthly membership, with the promise of meeting these stunning girls, who are all in your area, and are dying to have an affair with you.
what a bunch of fcukn S**mbgs!
A pair of dumbasses
Hod do you find this website asking for a friend
Bad form.
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