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Ashley Madison To Pay $1.6M Settlement Related To Data Breach (pcworld.com)
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.
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 who knew I was married but didn't know my financial situation. If you are visiting a site like AM, you really must be a loser.
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,"
What about fornication for unmarried people, can't they get service?