Adultery website Ashley Madison faces $578m class action over data breach

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In today’s Guardian:
Two Canadian law firms have filed a $578m class-action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group’s data breach exposed some 39 million memberships in the adultery website earlier this week.
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Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg, both of Ontario, said Friday that they filed the lawsuit on behalf of Canadians who subscribed to Ashley Madison and whose personal information was disclosed to the public. The website, with its slogan “Life is short. Have an affair,” is marketed to facilitate extramarital relationships.
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The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in the Ontario superior court of justice, targets Avid Dating Life and Avid Life Media, the Toronto-based companies that run AshleyMadison.com. Its class-action status “still needs to be certified by the court”, the statement says.
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Ashley Madison did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It has said that the personal details exposed in the initial data leak can’t be used to prove the infidelity of their clients.
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theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/22/adultery-website-ashley-madison-faces-578m-class-action-over-data-breach
 
Having a website like that and with all of the hacking going on, they were just asking for trouble.

That said, I ponder what litigation could award the plaintiffs and if it is a good case?
 
I doubt there will be very many married people that used the web site joining the lawsuit.😛
 
Anybody who would register at such a website and expect anonymity surely isn’t using any brains he might have in his head. ANYTHING on the internet can be hacked into, and we have had plenty of evidence for this and publicity about it !
 
All I can say is if the shenanigans of Ashley Madison customers get exposed to the public, well, Karma is a You-Know-What. 😛
 
Tomdstone said:
Hundreds Of White House And Congressional Workers Implicated In Ashley Madison Hack’
This is what government salaried workers are doing on the job while the taxpayer has to pay:
huffingtonpost.com/entry/ashley-madison-hack_55d65a28e4b020c386de29d2
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You can’t really make anything of the email addresses because AM didn’t email verify accounts. I could have started an account with Barack Obama’s email if I had wanted to. The credit card information and GPS data is what you have to go after if you want damning evidence.
 
I pray the company goes bankrupt for good and that there is no new reincarnation of it under a different name.
 
Hours after the Daily Mail reported that Sam Rader – one half of the viral Christian vlogging couple Sam and Nia – appeared to have once paid for an account on the infidelity Web site Ashley Madison, the couple released a video confirming that the account was Rader’s and saying that they had put the whole thing behind them.
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“She has forgiven me for this mistake that I made in opening the account,” Sam said of his wife, Nia, who sat beside him in the video. “I have sought forgiveness from God, and he has forgiven me, so I have been completely cleansed of this sin,” Rader continues.
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Rader said that their newest video will be their only public statement on the matter, “because this is in our past, and this has already been completely resolved within my family and within my church.”
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washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/08/22/christian-vlogger-sam-rader-says-his-wife-and-god-have-forgiven-him-about-his-ashley-madison-account/?hpid=z9
 
This is the first I’ve heard of this website for adulterers . 38 million users?
Depressing
 
EmeraldOak said:
I pray the company goes bankrupt for good and that there is no new reincarnation of it under a different name.
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I don’t think it will matter much. Other dating websites allow someone to specify they are already married and what they are looking for (friendship, sex, so on…). This on just specialized in that.

Many dating websites are under the same company ownership and the profiles visible are based on one’s attributes. So someone that registered under one dating website X might also show up under a Christian dating website if they specified they are Christian, or a black dating website if they specify they are black, or a farmer dating website if they specify they are a farmer. So on. They are all facets of the same underlying data. A co.pay could make one more front for people that specify they are married.

Even if this one company were destroyed my expectation is that others will recognize the business opportunity and learn from the security mistakes of this site. Also people familiar with this incident might decide to make a secondary email account and use a form of payment that doesn’t identify them. It’s not that hard.
 
ThinkingSapien said:
I don’t think it will matter much. Other dating websites allow someone to specify they are already married and what they are looking for (friendship, sex, so on…). This on just specialized in that.

Many dating websites are under the same company ownership and the profiles visible are based on one’s attributes. So someone that registered under one dating website X might also show up under a Christian dating website if they specified they are Christian, or a black dating website if they specify they are black, or a farmer dating website if they specify they are a farmer. So on. They are all facets of the same underlying data. A co.pay could make one more front for people that specify they are married.

Even if this one company were destroyed my expectation is that others will recognize the business opportunity and learn from the security mistakes of this site. Also people familiar with this incident might decide to make a secondary email account and use a form of payment that doesn’t identify them. It’s not that hard.
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The real problem isn’t that websites like this exist. The real problem is that there are millions of people who place so little value on marriage and fidelity, and these are people who really have no honor.
 
DeniseNY said:
The real problem isn’t that websites like this exist. The real problem is that there are millions of people who place so little value on marriage and fidelity, and these are people who really have no honor.
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The number of Roman Catholic marriage annulments has gone up sharply since 1960.
 
DeniseNY said:
Why are you specifically singling out Roman Catholics?
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Because this is a Roman Catholic forum and it is less likely that Hindus or Zen Buddhists would be participating here. Although there are some Hindus who post here, the majority are Roman Catholics, which is understandable since the name of the forum is CAF - Catholic Answers Forum.
 
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