Early morning, Reuters broke the news that AvidLife Media, the parent company of affair-driven dating/hookup website Ashley Madison, is now undergoing a probe by the United States Federal Trade Commission tuesday. While AvidLife officially “said it will not understand the focus of the FTC that is own investigation” it’s fairly easy to find out what is at problem right here.
In regards to an ago, in july 2015, ashley madison was hacked by a group known as the impact team year. The hackers proceeded to jeopardize to leak the site’s client list if AvidLife Media didn’t shut down both Ashley Madison and sibling site Founded guys, which theoretically connected“sugar that is young” females with older, wealthier, “sugar daddy” males. The database ended up being quickly released…which ended up being simply the tip regarding the iceberg.
The initial, more instant and apparent concern had been that the business’s option to cover to totally delete a merchant account didn’t seem to really do such a thing. Exposing the facts behind the deletion that is“paid choice had been quickly revealed to be a main motive into the hack. The next had been a thing that was indeed suspected but ended up being hard to show until Gizmodo’s Annalen Newitz crunched the figures into the database:
That the vast, the greater part of feminine accounts didn’t participate in real people, never as real women. Cross-referencing components of complaints towards the Ca Attorney General with all the site’s supply rule resulted in much more evidence. Continue Reading