Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Ashley Madison, which suffered a data breach in 2015 [view related posts here] involving the loss of 37 million users’ personal and financial information, has settled the suit for $11.2 million.
Ashley Madison’s parent company previously settled data security allegations with 13 states and the Federal Trade Commission for $17.5 million, but ended up…
We have previously reported on the Ashley Madison data breach and subsequent litigation [view related posts here, here, here, and here]. On December 14th, Ashley Madison announced that it has agreed to pay $1.6 million and implement additional security measures to settle claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission…
We all remember the Ashley Madison data breach [view related posts here and here]. The hackers, calling themselves “The Impact Team” requested that the Ashley Madison extramarital affair site, and Cougar Life and Established Men sites be “taken down.” When they weren’t, they posted details (9.7 gigabites worth) to the dark web of approximately…
Anonymous users of the almost 40 million users of the Ashley Madison website have filed suit against internet service providers (ISPs) GoDaddy and Amazon alleging that they have been damaged because the ISPs hosted the stolen data and allowed the stolen data to be easily accessible and searchable (view related posts Aug. 27, Aug.
We previously reported that hackers The Impact Team had posted legitimate detailed information about 36 million adultery website Ashley Madison users. In the wake of the shocking posting of the data last week, two class action lawsuits were filed against Ashley Madison parent company Avid Dating Life the day after the posting in Canada for…
On Tuesday, August 18, hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, which claim responsibility for hacking the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison (view related post), and stealing information of up to 37 million people, posted 9.7 gigabytes of data to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser.
The…
Hackers calling themselves “The Impact Team” announced on July 15th that it has compromised the extramarital affair site AshleyMadison.com, and companion sites Cougar Life and Established Men, including absconding with up to 37 million users’ financial records. The sites promised that for an extra $19.99, users could completely remove their site usage history and personally…
