After hackers allegedly stole the data of over 37 million Ashley Madison users, they are now offering a free removal. Ashley Madison is a married dating and extramarital affairs website. Their slogan is: “Life is short. Have an affair.” The removal includes all information related to a member’s profile and communications activity. The process involves a hard-delete of a requesting user’s profile, posted pictures and all messages sent to the system users’ email boxes.
Hackers threatened to post some personal information of the user database unless the site owners deactivated the ashleymadison site and their establishedmen.com site. According to the press release, Ashley Madison removed or will remove this information under the DMCA Copyright Act from the offending websites. I would imagine that the information will also be removed from the search engines.
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Statement from Avid Life Media, Inc (July 20, 2015 12:25 PM)