Some say Ashley Madison has also gone too far with its takedown notices, accusing the site of hindering reporters from doing their jobs.
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“They use rule of law and a band of lawyers with DMCA takedowns to “protect” their customer data”. He was hired into his role in 2005 under my predecessor’s administration, and his employment with our office ended in 2014 for matters unrelated to the use of the Ashley Madison website.
The revelations have led several governmental entities in Alabama scrambling to figure out why email addresses bearing their domains were named in the hacked information, and to figure out how to address that fact in an effective, fair and legal manner. Avid Life Media, the owners of Ashley Madison, did not require the data for users be valid unless it was a paid account, according to the blog.
“The unauthorised material published this month appears to have been enabled by individuals associating defence email addresses with private online activity, and providing personally identifiable information”, he said in a joint statement with Department of Defence secretary, Dennis Richardson.
Since city and state emails were among users on the subscribed list, city leaders have been in a scramble, starting their own investigation.
He said that with more information being leaked it was possible to pin down the locations from which people registered and the names of the organisations they registered from.
State workers using their official email for a site like this could be violating state policy.
Analysis of leaked Ashley Madison data shows that some of the cheating website’s customers made credit-card transactions from computers attached to the Department of National Defence and the House of Commons.
The hacker group threatened to release the data if the holding company of Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media did not cease all operations with the website. “If such a case were found to be true, appropriate action would be taken”.
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In an online statement, the hackers, calling themselves “The Impact Team” write: “Find yourself in here? Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it”.
