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| Man sues Ashley Madison for emotional distress in potential class-action lawsuit | Man sues Ashley Madison for emotional distress in potential class-action lawsuit |
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| Related: Toronto police report two suicides associated with Ashley Madison hack | Related: Toronto police report two suicides associated with Ashley Madison hack |
| The infidelity website Ashley Madison and its parent company are being sued in US federal court by a man who claims that the companies caused him emotional damage by failing to adequately protect personal and financial information from theft. | The infidelity website Ashley Madison and its parent company are being sued in US federal court by a man who claims that the companies caused him emotional damage by failing to adequately protect personal and financial information from theft. |
| The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by a man named as John Doe, seeks class-action status, accusing Ashley Madison and parent company Avid Life Media of negligence and invasion of privacy, as well as causing emotional distress. It seeks unspecified damages. | The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by a man named as John Doe, seeks class-action status, accusing Ashley Madison and parent company Avid Life Media of negligence and invasion of privacy, as well as causing emotional distress. It seeks unspecified damages. |
| The lawsuit says that in addition to making “extremely personal and embarrassing information ... accessible to the public” the data breach made personal details such as addresses, phone numbers and credit card information available on the web. | The lawsuit says that in addition to making “extremely personal and embarrassing information ... accessible to the public” the data breach made personal details such as addresses, phone numbers and credit card information available on the web. |
| Data from the Toronto-based Ashley Madison website was released by a group calling itself the Impact Team. The highly sensitive personal, financial, and identifying information of 37 million users was exposed, the lawsuit says, and this could have been prevented if the company had taken “necessary and reasonable precautions to protect its users’ information, by, for example, encrypting the data”. | Data from the Toronto-based Ashley Madison website was released by a group calling itself the Impact Team. The highly sensitive personal, financial, and identifying information of 37 million users was exposed, the lawsuit says, and this could have been prevented if the company had taken “necessary and reasonable precautions to protect its users’ information, by, for example, encrypting the data”. |
| The hacker group first threatened to release information if the site was not shut down, the suit says, and then in August published the “stolen personal information,” the suit said. | The hacker group first threatened to release information if the site was not shut down, the suit says, and then in August published the “stolen personal information,” the suit said. |
| The data, which was dumped online, included millions of email addresses for US government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North American corporations. | The data, which was dumped online, included millions of email addresses for US government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North American corporations. |
| Avid Life Media was sued in Canada last week in a class-action suit that seeks $760m in damages. | Avid Life Media was sued in Canada last week in a class-action suit that seeks $760m in damages. |
| Police in Toronto said on Monday that two suicides they were investigating may be linked to the Ashley Madison hack. “As of this morning we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides that are associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customers’ profiles,” Toronto police service staff superintendent Bryce Evans said on Monday. | Police in Toronto said on Monday that two suicides they were investigating may be linked to the Ashley Madison hack. “As of this morning we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides that are associated because of the leak of Ashley Madison customers’ profiles,” Toronto police service staff superintendent Bryce Evans said on Monday. |
| Reuters contributed to this report | |
| • In the US and Canada, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 08457 90 90 90. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. | • In the US and Canada, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 08457 90 90 90. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. |