So a bunch of hackers have the entire database from Ashley Madison, the infidelity site, and a lot of people must be very nervous this morning:

The hackers say they’ve compromised the entire database of parent company Avid Life Media, whose chief executive has confirmed the hack to security blog KrebsOnSecurity and says the company is “working diligently and feverishly” to take down files that the hackers have already posted online. The chief exec says the hack appears to have been an inside job carried out by somebody “that was not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services.”

In a manifesto seen by Krebs, hackers calling themselves the “Impact Team” describe the site’s clients as “cheating dirtbags” and accuse the company of cheating users by charging them $19 for a “full delete” of personal information and then keeping their details regardless. They say the information they will release includes “secret sexual fantasies,” as well as names and credit card details. Ashley Madison is still online for now, but perhaps it should change its tagline from “Life Is Short, Have an Affair” to “It’s All Fun and Games Until Everybody Finds Out,” quips Daniel Cooper at Engadget. (But there may not be 37 million real clients: An ex-employee claims she was paid to create fake Ashley Madison profiles to attract male users.)

By Russians:

But based on the technical details contained in the notice, the hackers are upping their game and employing even more advanced methods to trick users into downloading viruses onto their computers that can then siphon off files, messages, and other sensitive information.

“The sophistication of this attack far surpasses anything we have seen to date from any state actors,” said Michael Adams, a computer security expert who served more than two decades in the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Daily Beast shared the technical details of the malware with Adams, who said it employed tools that make the intruder extraordinarily difficult to detect.

“To use a military analogy, the level of sophistication of this attack is like comparing a World War I propeller-driven fighter plane to a stealth bomber coming in under the radar, completely destroying its target, and leaving before the enemy even realizes they have been attacked,” Adams said.

In the new campaign, which the notice says was detected on July 8, the victims received emails that purported to come from the National Endowment for Democracy, a prominent non-profit organization in Washington that receives congressional funding. The group supports pro-democracy efforts around the world, including in Russia and China, where hackers who recently stole personal records from more than 22 million current and former U.S. government employees are believed to be based.

The emails contained a link that, when clicked, takes recipients to an infected server on the organization’s network. It then downloads malicious software on to the victim’s computer.

It would be nice if eventually American-grown weed put the cartels out of business:

Next time you pick up a joint, you may want to think carefully about where it came from.

The marijuana you’re smoking is very possibly tainted by the brutality of cartels, according to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow, who joined HuffPost Live on Thursday to discuss his most recent book, The Cartel.

“It’s always been blood weed,” Winslow told host Marc Lamont Hill.

The author explained that since states began legalizing marijuana, marijuana imports from Mexico have declined by roughly 40 percent, “because [Mexico] can’t compete with the American price and quality.” But even with that decrease, the drug trade’s continued rampant violence means recreational weed smokers should be aware of where their dope is from.

“You should know its providence,” Winslow said. “You should know where it came from because, you know, there are tractor trailor trucks of it that are coming up through Mexico every day, and a lot of that is produced by slave labor. It’s been sent to you by people who are mass murderers. … I don’t want to harsh anybody’s high, but it’s very possible that that weed you’re smoking does have blood all over it.”