Ashley Madison has announced its intention to compensate customers of the 2015 data leakage. The company has even formed a $ 11.8 million fund dedicated to this issue.
Ashley Madison is not one site like the others. Launched in 2001, it was actually in the extramarital encounter and was therefore intended to connect men and women looking for an adulterous relationship to spice up their lives.
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The service quickly became in the Middle, and so he ended up at the head of a strong community of 37 million members, all for more than one hundred twenty million visits each month.
Ashley Madison: a leak that affected millions of people,
unfortunately for its publisher and its members, it found in the cross hairs of a bunch of hackers in 2015. Following a carefully orchestrated attack, they have managed to get their hands on confidential data from users of the site.
They then contacted the boss of the company asking him to close the site, just by threatening to publish this information on the Web.
The company refused access to the insistent demands of the hackers and the latter then eventually make good on their threats. The data of users of the site have been published and their small business have thus been made public. Of course, the publication of this information has had a significant impact on the lives of millions of people and the operation caused so many divorces and even a few suicides.
A paltry sum to turn the final page, the editor of the site has established a Fund of assistance to the victims of the flight.
The committed amount reached $ 11.8 million and it will be split between the most affected users, with maximum benefits of 3500 dollars for people who have suffered a real loss.
And that's the problem, finally. According to the Wall Street Journal, about six million people will be eligible for the payment of compensation, which equivalent on average to just under two dollars per person. Not sure that supply is sufficient to calm things down. Some users have indeed lost everything following the publication data stolen by hackers.
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