Ashley Madison Data Breach

Ashley Madison marketed itself as a means to help people, primarily men, cheat on their spouses, and was known for its slogan "Life is short. Have an affair."

The settlement comes after a hacker group last year released what was said to be personal data on millions of members of Ashley Madison.

The website for cheaters, Ashley Madison, that was hit by a massive hack that exposed millions last year has agreed to bolster its data security after Australian and Canadian investigations found it to be "insufficient or absent," officials said on Tuesday.

When data from the massive Ashley Madison hack first leaked online, one tiny bright spot was that researchers said the company appeared to use a strong algorithm to encrypt users passwords. But now one group says it already decoded more than 11 million passwords because programming errors in how that encryption was applied left the information less...

The chief executive of extra-marital dating website Ashley Madison stepped down today after hackers leaked its membership list online.

The lawsuit accuses the companies of negligence and invasion of privacy, as well as causing emotional distress.

Infidelity website Ashley Madison and its parent company have been sued in federal court in California by a man who claims that the companies failed to adequately protect clients' personal and financial information from theft, saying he suffered emotional distress.

Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison on Tuesday, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet.

Hackers breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison and threatened to expose data on users in an effort to shut down the service which claims millions of members worldwide.

Ashley Madison marketed itself as a means to help people, primarily men, cheat on their spouses, and was known for its slogan "Life is short. Have an affair."

The settlement comes after a hacker group last year released what was said to be personal data on millions of members of Ashley Madison.

The website for cheaters, Ashley Madison, that was hit by a massive hack that exposed millions last year has agreed to bolster its data security after Australian and Canadian investigations found it to be "insufficient or absent," officials said on Tuesday.

When data from the massive Ashley Madison hack first leaked online, one tiny bright spot was that researchers said the company appeared to use a strong algorithm to encrypt users passwords. But now one group says it already decoded more than 11 million passwords because programming errors in how that encryption was applied left the information less...

The chief executive of extra-marital dating website Ashley Madison stepped down today after hackers leaked its membership list online.

The lawsuit accuses the companies of negligence and invasion of privacy, as well as causing emotional distress.

Infidelity website Ashley Madison and its parent company have been sued in federal court in California by a man who claims that the companies failed to adequately protect clients' personal and financial information from theft, saying he suffered emotional distress.

Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison on Tuesday, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users' attitudes towards the Internet.

Hackers breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison and threatened to expose data on users in an effort to shut down the service which claims millions of members worldwide.