{"id":30646,"date":"2016-12-15T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=30646"},"modified":"2016-12-15T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:59:21","slug":"was-it-putin-who-hacked-ashley-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=30646","title":{"rendered":"Was it Putin who hacked Ashley Madison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-6MU\">Remember Ashley Madison?<\/a> No? Are you blocking it for reasons we need not go into?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-7br\">I&#8217;m wondering if I promised to keep up with this case and report in whenever there was news. <\/a>If so, I did it long, long before the Horror descended upon us&#8230;and the Horror is not really about getting caught in adulterous relationships. Although it could be.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem there is a settlement in the Ashley Madison hacking case. So if I did assure everyone I&#8217;d keep up with this now pitifully insignificant story&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>New York AG Joins FTC in Ashley Madison Data Breach Settlement<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"title-div\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><small class=\"authors\"> C. Ryan Barber and Mark Hamblett, New York Law Journal<\/small><time> December 14, 2016<\/time> \u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"row main-page-div\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"span7 stalkerOffset \" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"article-text basic-article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Ashley Madison, the online dating service built to help cheating lovers meet their match, will settle claims that lax cybersecurity was responsible for a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article-text basic-article-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/ashley_madison_agrees_to_pay_1.6m_in_connection_with_hacking_of_its_network\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=site_rss_feeds\">And here&#8217;s the ABA Journal story on this settlement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text basic-article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Ashley Madison? 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