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Ashley Madison To Pay $1.6M Settlement Related To Data Breach (pcworld.com) 45

The company behind Ashley Madison, the adultery enabling website, has agreed to pay a $1.6 million settlement related to a major data breach last year that exposed account details of 36 million users. From a PCWorld report: Ashley Madison's operator, Toronto-based Ruby, is making the settlement for failing to protect the account information and for creating fake user profiles to lure in prospective customers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. In July 2015, a hacking group called Impact Team managed to steal the account details and then post them online a month later -- potentially damaging the reputation of the customers using the adultery website. The FTC alleges the Ashley Madison site suffered from lax security, allowing hackers to break in several times between Nov. 2014 and June 2015. The service also retained personal information of users who had paid $19 to delete their data from the site, the FTC said.
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Ashley Madison To Pay $1.6M Settlement Related To Data Breach

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  • How sad (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Let's put aside the morality question around extramarital affairs. The fact is that any woman who would need a site like this to find a hook up would have to be very undesirable, and more likely these women don't exist in the first place. Any woman can find a guy to hook up with without relaxing standards too much.

    Men who use this site have to be incredibly stupid and/or desperate. Crap. I'm not that desirable of a guy myself outside of my six figure income and I've been come onto more than once by women wh

  • That's it? 1.6M? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ddtmm ( 549094 ) on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:15PM (#53485719)
    4.5 cents per user. I love the line "Today’s settlement closes an important chapter on the company’s past and reinforces our commitment to operating with integrity,"
  • enabling adultery? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by iggymanz ( 596061 ) on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:16PM (#53485723)

    What about fornication for unmarried people, can't they get service?

    • Wouldn't such people use more conventional services like match.com, where they'd find other unmarried people that they can hook up w/?
      • Wouldn't such people use more conventional services like match.com, where they'd find other unmarried people that they can hook up w/?

        Well... the married people on AM are presumably not on the whole picky as to whether they want to hook up with someone married or single. And it's a good indication that both people want something no strings attached.

      • What if they use specs and performance of particular product offered as the main criteria?

  • by bluegutang ( 2814641 ) on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:17PM (#53485745)

    So the value of each user's information, including the fact that they're considering cheating on their spouse, is just 4.4 cents?

    • by Qzukk ( 229616 ) on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:22PM (#53485787) Journal

      I bet it doesn't even cover the $19 they were paid to pretend to delete the user's data. Once again, crime pays as long as you have that corporate veil to protect you from being personally responsible for your actions.

    • So the value of each user's information, including the fact that they're considering cheating on their spouse, is just 4.4 cents?

      Maybe the value of their information is worth a lot per head, but the fact that they're considering cheating on their spouse is highly negative, and what pulls down their value to less than 5 cents

    • Nobody was cheating with anyone they were chatting with bots.
  • I never even used AM, but I got a shitload of attempted blackmail spam after they had their breach.

  • If people paid $19 to have their data deleted, but they did not. This case should be answerable by the directors personally; however nothing will happen since few expect honesty or integrity in business these days -- unfortunately.

  • Ashley Madison to be nominated to Trump's cabinet

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