The site’s users are anxious not only about identity theft but about embarrassment after release of sexual preferences.
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The lawsuits were filed by people who had signed up to Ashley Madison in California, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee and Minnesota. Avid Life Media, which owns the site, may have offered a bounty; however, the fact it still faces multiple lawsuits, including negligence, could not be denied.
The suit alleges that Ashley Madison and Avid Life Media failed to take “necessary and reasonable precautions to protect its users’ information, by, for example, encrypting the data”.
The dates on those files suggest the hackers first extracted information from the servers on July 1, and the last date that they signed in was July 11.
“Needless to say, this dumping of sensitive personal and financial information is bound to have catastrophic effects on the lives of the website’s users”. According to multiple sources, the released information has led to divorces and other serious consequences for some users.
The lawsuit makes multiple references to the “Full Delete” feature, which apparently netted Avid Life Media nearly $US2 million (£1.3 million) in revenue, making it clear that those users who thought they were safe feel the most betrayed.
The complainants still seek to maintain their anonymity behind the Doe pseudonym after hackers dumped nearly 10 gigabytes of data on the Internet, providing information on users including e-mail addresses.
“I have never seen something prefer it”, Hammond stated Tuesday. They claim C$760 million in damages.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, next on the agenda is an Ashley Madison TV show, with Toronto-based production company Marblemedia working on bringing the prospective project – a scripted drama tentatively tiled Thank You Ashley Madison – to the small screen. This might be an agenda by hackers to impose their personal ideology on people, which needs to be protested against.
A story erroneously linking someone to the Ashley Madison site who wasn’t actually a user would be highly damaging to that person and to the news outlet involved, said Fred Brown, co-vice chair of the Society of Professional Journalists ethics committee.
The site previously enjoyed a boom in business after adultery was legalized in South Korea.
In the same source, Mr. Evans was reported to have explained that the hack has already resulted to a series “spin-offs of crimes and further victimization”.
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