HawaiiFreePress:
A.G. Schneiderman Announces $17.5 Million Settlement With Owner Of Ashleymadison.com In Joint Multi-State And FTC Agreement
Settlement Follows Investigation Finding That Adult Dating Website Maintained Lax Security Practices, Misled Consumers About Its Data Security, And Created Fake Female Profiles To Entice Male Users
In Addition to Penalties, Settlement Requires The Website To Implement Stronger Data Security Program And Cease Deceptive Practices
News Release from New York State Attorney General December 14, 2016
NEW YORK—Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman joined twelve other states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday in announcing a $17.5 million settlement with ruby Corp., which owns the dating website AshleyMadison.com. The settlement follows an investigation into the July 2015 hack of the website that resulted in the online publication of user information for millions of AshleyMadison.com members, including photographs, usernames, email addresses, communications, and other profile information.
The settlement includes an immediate payment of $1,657,000 divided amongst the states and the Federal Trade Commission, of which New York will receive $81,330.94. The remainder of the $17.5 million payment is suspended based on ruby Corp.’s inability to pay. Up to 652,627 New York residents were members of Ashley Madison at the time of the security breach.
(According to the parallel suit filed Dec 14—and settled the same day–by the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection, 33,362 consumers signed up for AshleyMadison in Hawaii and 370 later paid for the bogus ‘Full Delete’ option.) more here
Instead of running an adult hookup site they should have run for public office and accomplished the same thing without scrutiny or penalty!
Lots can be said here, but number one for me is “If it’s too good an offer to be true, it’s a scam – especially over the Internet.”
“Investigation Finding That Adult Dating Website Maintained Lax Security Practices, Misled Consumers About Its Data Security, And Created Fake Female Profiles To Entice Male Users”
but comey couldn’t find any intent in hillary’s actions?
“the bogus ‘Full Delete’ option”
Ok, they and their customers are a bunch of nasty and immoral mothertruckers.
However, if you promise a customer that their records [of being a nasty and immoral mothertrucker] would be deleted from their files, you better be deleting their files.
As for being hacked, well, you had to know you were a rich target by being a nasty and immoral mothertrucker, right? lol.
“Mothertruckers”? You seem to have a bad idea of my mothers work. What the heck?