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Judge won't anonymise those suing Ashley Madison for the leak identifying them as love cheats

on Apr 24, 2016 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Ashley Madison users looking to sue the company for failing to hold onto their personal data in a wide sweeping cyber attack affecting millions will not be afforded anonymity in the court case.

The site facilitates extramarital affairs and back in July 2015 personal information that could be used to identify some 30 million users on the service was leaked in a cyber-attack and blackmail scandal.

Many affairs facilitated on the supposedly discrete service were outed.

42 plaintiffs are now suing the company owned by Avid Dating Life. They however requested anonymity in the court to avoid being identified as users Read full story ›

Source: The Drum