The owners of the “site for traitors” received a claim of $ 578 million

The company, which owns a dating site for married people who want to change their partner or partner, received a class action suit from two major Canadian law firms for $ 578 million, Lenta reports . The lawsuit was filed by Canadian lawyers from Charney Lawyers and Sutts and Strosberg LLP on behalf of all Canadian citizens, whose data became public.

The defendant in the lawsuit is the company Avid Life Media, registered in Toronto. If the court confirms that the claim can be collective, the case will be given.

"The degree of confidentiality of information is so great, and the consequences of hacking are so critical that it translates the damage caused to users into another category of collective claims," ​​lawyer Ted Charney comments. In some situations, site users pay an additional fee for the administration to delete their data. But after hacking and getting data into open access, it turned out that the administration did not delete anything.
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Recall that on August 19, hackers from the group The Impact Team decided to publish personal data of users of the Ashley Madison.com resource. The site is intended for married people who want to find a partner on the side. The total number of victims as a result of hacking into the users' service is estimated from 32 to 39 million people. The network has posted data on bank cards registered in the system of users, as well as names and aliases.