Ashley Madison users in US sue cheating website

The lawsuits were filed by people who had signed up to Ashley Madison in California, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee and Minnesota.

Ashley Madison site owners claimed nearly 40 million members last month, but Wired.com has reported that part of the hackers’ motiviation may have been that they considered the site, at best, misleading. The lawsuits cite a host of reasons for the legal action: violations of privacy, breach of contract, negligence, and more.

Media attention is mounting, as this is one of the largest online attacks in the world, and Ashley Madison’s parent company Avid Life, is now offering a $500,000 reward for any information about those that are responsible.

The Ashley Madison hack has sparked “spin off” crimes including extortion and may have led to two suicides, Canadian police say.

Toronto police along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, US Homeland Security and the American FBI are investigating the hack, dubbing the probe “Project Unicorn”.

He also provided more details on how the hack was discovered on July 12, when Avid Life Media employees logged in to their computers and were confronted by a “threatening message” from the hackers, accompanied by AC/DC’s hit song “Thunderstruck”.

The hacking of the Ashley Madison website has given birth to scams involving protection of client’s data for a given fee.

Ashley Madison is a website for anyone looking to have an affair.

“For numerous website’s users, the publicity of this information has created and will continue to create irreparable harm”, the man said in his lawsuit.

Last week, Relate Cymru posted information on their website, advising people affected by the leak to contact them for support.

“We have tens of thousands of living alumni and retired employees who have maintained their university email addresses after they have left the university, and we don’t comment on the personal lives of anyone connected to Kent State”. He also asserted alongside that the perpetrator of the hack was a female.

Acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans of the Toronto Police stated that “you know The Impact Team has crossed the line”.

“Right now, any site that purports you can search for yourself or anyone else [on Ashley Madison] is illegitimate”, said Alex McGeorge, head of threat intelligence at Immunity Inc., a cyber security firm based in Miami, Florida.