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In the exchange, the hacker group said Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media were facilitating human trafficking and other abuses. The website – whose slogan is, “Life is short”. Asked about the threat of blackmail, the investigator said if prompted he would reveal his actions to his family and employer to prevent it. “I’ve worked too hard all my life to be a victim of blackmail”.
Ashley Madison is in full damage control mode right now.
So have 679 unique users with a psu.edu email address, the second-most of any college or university that uses a.edu address.
The lead plaintiff in the suit is a disabled Ottawa widower.
A State of Michigan employee acceptable use policy states that “IT Resources, including devices, networks, data, software, email and system accounts, are used to conduct official State business”.
“Any time you’re stealing time, basically, is a awful thing, but especially if you’re on taxpayer dime-especially for the goal that it was for”, said Houston taxpayer Joshua Baker.
Lawyer Ted Charney told The Associated Press it is the first class-action suit filed against the companies in Canada.
A data security analyst who broke the story of the initial hack said he was concerned that some people implicated as a result of the data dump may take their own lives as a result of the massive data leak.
The hacking group behind the Ashley Madison breach compared the affair-seeking website to “a drug dealer abusing addicts” in an email exchange threatening to carry out more attacks.
The law firms say that “Canadians from every province can join the lawsuit”.
“The unauthorised material published this month appears to have been enabled by individuals associating defence email addresses with private online activity, and providing personally identifiable information”, he said in a joint statement with Department of Defence secretary, Dennis Richardson. “Have an affair.” Hackers stole the data and demanded that the site be shut down, or the data would be released.
National Defence referred most questions to the federal Treasury Board, which has an overall responsibility.
That said, the following slides do contain some racy and sexual content.