Ashley Madison Offers $11 Million in Data Breach Settlement

Ruby Life Inc., the owner and operator of the online adultery service Ashley Madison, has offered to pay $11.2 million to individuals affected by the 2015 data breach. Ashley Madison was breached in July 2015 by hackers who had threatened to leak the personal details of the website’s customers unless its owners shut down the service. In mid-August, the hackers leaked details associated with well over 30 million user accounts, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, users’ interests and their physical description, password hashes, and credit card transactions. A few days later, they also dumped internal company files and emails.