[Poe969]

But he wasn't really caught. Someone didn't do this just to catch him, they did it to make money off of people who use the site in general. If it was the guys wife or family member or something trying to catch him, I'm sure he would have acted differently. Instead it was someone trying to blackmail people who use the site in general and this guy was caught in the crossfire.

Affairs happen all the time in society, it sucks and it's horrible. There are only 3 real ways you find out about an affair, catching the person red handed, the person admitting to it or someone else finding out and telling you about it. The last has to be the worst way to find out devastating news, it's never good to hear about your own situation from others. In most cases when an affair happens and the other partner find out, it's between them and they have time to deal with it in their own way. This takes that right away from them.

Again, I don't condone cheating and I've been cheated on (by a girlfriend years ago) but there is nothing illegal about it. What the hackers did was illegal, they hacked private information and then they tried blackmailing people (I thought I've read that anyway). The guy who killed himself isn't right for cheating or taking the easy way out and killing himself but this wouldn't have happened had his information not been made public. I think both parties are in the wrong here, the only difference is the hackers are breaking the law.

You said it yourself, you don't think the guy would have killed himself if his information wasn't made public. It was made public and he did, it caused it.