One Online Mistake Jeopardized This Guy’s Marriage. Wow.

The Internet forgives mistakes less and less. We see online privacy breaches on the regular, and it gets to a point where they can ruin lives. This guy found that out the hard way.

6 years ago when I was in my early 20’s, I was fresh out of a relationship and wanted to try online dating.

Plenty Of Fish and Ok Cupid were the go-to places at the time. I saw an ad for Ashley Madison and thought I’d check it out.

As soon as I signed up, I realized that it was a pay site, and since I was a broke 20 something, I left it alone. I tried to delete it but I didn’t want to pay and since I had no activity on my account I didn’t think there would be much harm in just letting it go inactive and die. I would start to get spam emails so I would just unsubscribe and go about my day.

Fast forward 6 years, I’m engaged and my wedding is in 3 weeks.

When I first heard about the hack, I didn’t register what was happening, because in my mind I didn’t have an account and it was never active anyways. I got an email yesterday from a buzzfeed reporter asking me if he could ask me some questions because he pulled my email from the hack list. I was floored.

I’ve talked to a class-action lawyer that is going after Ashley Madison for damages. To make matters worse I have to tell my future wife that I just got outed for being signed up to an infidelity website. My wedding is in three weeks!

Lesson of the day: the Internet never forgets.