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Company: Ruby Corp. and AshleyMadison.com
Penalty: $17,500,000
Year: 2016
Date: December 14, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Ruby Corp., owner of the dating website AshleyMadison.com, agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve a multistate investigation into the July 2015 hack of the website that resulted in the online publication of user information for millions of members, including photographs, usernames, email addresses, communications, and other profile information.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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