Very early Tuesday morning, Reuters broke the news that AvidLife Media, the moms and dad organization of affair-driven dating/hookup site Ashley Madison, has become undergoing a probe from the usa Federal Trade percentage. While AvidLife formally “said it doesn’t understand focus of their very own FTC study,” it’s fairly easy to determine precisely what is at concern right here.

About a year ago, in July 2015, Ashley Madison was hacked by a team referred to as effects professionals. The hackers proceeded to jeopardize to drip the site’s visitors listing if AvidLife mass media didn’t shut down both Ashley Madison and brother web site Set up Men, which theoretically linked younger “sugar child” female with earlier, wealthier, “sugar daddy” males. Continue reading →