(AP) – Arkansas’ attorney general says the state will receive
nearly $53,000 in a settlement with the owner of the Ashley Madison adultery
dating website.
The agreement is part of a $1.6 million settlement that will be paid to 13
states and the District of Columbia following an investigation led by the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission into a massive breach of the company’s computer systems
and the outing of millions of its members. Ashley Madison is owned by
Toronto-based Ruby Corp.
Hackers breached the company’s systems in July 2015 and then posted the
information online a month later after the company didn’t comply with their
demands to shut down Ashley Madison.
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