Ashley Madison Hacked Data Released

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 owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

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.

Hackers have released stolen information from some 32 million users of the affair website Ashley Madison, tech magazine Wired reported.

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 owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

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.

Hackers have released stolen information from some 32 million users of the affair website Ashley Madison, tech magazine Wired reported.