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hackers are threatening to expose the secrets of millions of people that may have cheated on their spouses I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update it was only a matter of time ashleymadison.com a dating site for married people seeking to have an affair has been hacked the site which sports the motto life is short have an affair claims to have more than 37 million users and all those people are now at risk of having their details leaked online that includes photos conversations and credit card transactions the hack also involves more than just Ashley Madison parent company avid life media also owns the hookup sites cougar life and established men and data from those two are also part of the hack first reported by cyber security journalist brian krebs the data stolen includes details of users and financial records some of this data has already been leaked online but the hacker or hackers involved have posted a statement threatening to publish a full list of the customer details unless the websites Ashley Madison and establishment are both shut down the hackers criticized Ashley Madison for allegedly line about a service that permanently erases your profile details for a twenty dollar fee this scrubbing service fee promises to remove your entire history on the site but the hackers claim the company didn't fully delete everything credit card transaction records with names and addresses still remained intact the lesson here is that nothing you do or say online is ever private now let's lighten things up a bit and move on from adultery to Angry Birds how's that first smooth transition next week the game angry birds will launch its first sequel game maker rovio announced Angry Birds 2 will launch or shall I say slingshot into app stores on July thirtieth in the universe of these furious valves there have been ten different spin-offs such as Rio star wars Stella and transformers but this is a straightforward sequel and it appears that it's soft launched in Canadian app stores disguised under a different title Angry Birds under pig struction several videos of this pig struction game are on YouTube and they show the same artwork and characters that you'll find in the sequel promo arch some believe there will be more this game than just a nap because rovio is holding press conferences next week could Angry Birds to tie in with physical toys to unlock extra features but if angry birds is at your speed there's a more simple online game to satisfy your procrastination needs comedian and soon to be CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert created his own text-based adventure game online it's called escape from the man-sized cabinet and it's sort of like a choose your own adventure book if you feel inspired by this tale involving centaurs and magical daggers well you can make your own text based game just like this with an online program called twine you don't need any programming knowledge and it's free try it yourself at twat Nuri org that's it for this tech news update there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey