The release of the names and personal information of millions of potentially cheating spouses around the world will undoubtedly have disastrous consequences for many couples, but Ashley Madison members might think twice before suing over the website’s hacking.
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“The Impact team” released another trove of documents and confidential information on Thursday to follow up on their first 9.7 gigabyte leak, according to Vice.
In the exchange, the hacker group said Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media were facilitating human trafficking and other abuses.
For the 37 million people who signed up for profiles on Ashley Madison, one of the website’s selling points was the opportunity to have a discreet extramarital affair. You never know who else is looking at the pictures or emails you sent or what the recipient will do with them.
“It looked like they attempted to send about 1,500 or 2,000 [messages] through my service”, Romero told CNNMoney.
Despite the criticism they have faced, the hackers denied blackmailing Ashley Madison’s users. The info includes names, email addresses, credit card information and sexual preferences.
Lawyers are expecting many more marriages to end, an article on MailOnline written by Martin Robinson said. “Other people it’s not quite as obvious but they may have used an email address that you can’t find that email address anywhere online but the username part of it matched the username on some hobbyist forum that they were very prolific on”.
A class action lawsuit has now been filed by two Ontario firms.
More than three quarters of those transactions are connected to the Department of National Defence but 25 have been linked to the House of Commons. The question is, how many cheating Indian and Indian Americans have been outed?
Lisa Murphy, spokeswoman for the Treasury Board, would only say that the government has rules for the professional and personal use of its computers.
In a written statement, a DND spokeswoman echoed some of Murphy’s statement, and said the department “has policies and practices in place to deter, detect and enforce unauthorized and prohibited computer use”.
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A Justice Department investigator, a division chief and at least two assistant U.S. attorneys are also reportedly on the list, although none of the employees have been publicly named.
