Toronto police want hackers’ help to find out who released the data of more than 30 million users of the affair-enabling website Ashley Madison. People who went to sites to check if their names or email addresses were among those included in the hack, soon found that their information have been compromised and that hackers have sent malignant software to their email accounts.
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The lawsuit filed by an unnamed Austin, Texas man, which seeks class action status, claims Ashley Madison failed to heed its own employees’ warnings about the vulnerability of customers’ data.
The lawsuits, which search unspecified damages, declare negligence, breach of contract and privateness violations. “I got their entire user base”, Bhatia is alleged to have emailed Noel Biderman, CEO of Ashley Madison’s Canadian-based parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM) and Rizwan Jiwan, the company’s chief operating officer in November 2012.
A $578 million lawsuit was filed in Canada last week, PC Mag reported.
A TV drama inspired by the recently hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison is now being pitched to US networks, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“You know some marriages handle that better than others”.
The hacking incident exposed the personal information of millions of Ashley Madison subscribers.
It allowed users to pay $19 (£15) to erase “all traces of [their] usage” but Ashley Madison had not issued complete details on how the tool worked.
The hackers who took responsibility for the break-in had accused the website’s owners of deceit and incompetence, and said the company refused to bow to their demands to close the site. Toronto police have confirmed two suicides in connection to the data leak and advocates, counsellors and users of the site in Chennai say while the city may not witness such a drastic fallout it’s at the very least likely to have a severely negative impact on relationships.
All of this information coming following a major hack and data breach of the website.
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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. Many work in the White House, the Justice Department, and Congress. Hundreds of emails are related to federal, provincial, and municipal employees throughout Canada as well.
