Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman told Krebs on Security in July that the culprit “was definitely a person here that was not an employee but certainly had touched our technical services”.
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So far, Ashley Madison has been quoted as saying that user information cannot be used as a means to prove infidelity, though if your data is on the site, then it does suggest you may have at least had the intent to fool around.
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. lawsuits have been filed in Texas, California, Minnesota, Tennessee, Missouri, and Georgia.
Toronto Police, who is apparently helping to investigate the hacking scandal, have received two reports of suicides that are potentially linked to the leaking of the global “Ashley Madison” subscribers list.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
More bombshell information which spell doom to Ashley Madison are coming out. Nick Mokey, a contributor to Digital Trends, pointed out that while many are celebrating this as a kind of justice for cheaters, our data could be in the next leak, and we should support privacy rights in all forms.
There have probably been some heated conversations in homes around America this week following the data dump that leaked millions of names tied to the adultery website Ashley Madison.
Supt Evans said Ashley Madison is cooperating with the investigation and police have found “no criminal wrongdoing” by the company, as was alleged by the hackers. In addition, the hack is said to have resulted in two suicides, but that remains unconfirmed at this time. Specifically, Raja Bhatia, the founding chief technology officer at Ashley Madison, sent a message to Biderman about a security hole discovered in nerve.com, an American online magazine dedicated to sexual topics, culture, and relationships.
“They did a very lousy job building their platform”.
In 2011, Microsoft put up $250,000 (£158,000) to help catch a group running a network of hacked computers called Rustock.
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Avid Life Media, the Canadian company that owns Ashley Madison, said that the hack was malicious and an “act of criminality”. But the suits charge that their identities were still revealed when hackers posted 9.7 gigabytes of data stolen from the company last week.
