Ashley Madison Hacking: The Dark Web Gets Even Darker

Online dating was a personal introductory system through which individuals could find and contact each other over the internet to arrange a date, usually with the objective of developing a personal, romantic, or sexual relationship . Even before the advent of the internet, newspaper groups played host to a variety of dating activities like ads for match making. In addition to the forums created for posting personal ads, those who wanted a relationship with people with similar interests were meeting and getting to know others in forums of the print media. The internet began to be used for dating almost since its origin. Services such as Prodigy and America Online offered chat rooms and forums for singles and heavily advertised these features from 1985. The first major internet dating websites were kiss.com and match.com, which were both registered in 1994 and 1995 respectively. There were 16 dating websites listed on Yahoo! by 1996, and these included sites such as Friendfinder.com and OneandOnly.com...