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Checks have reportedly been sent to Class Members of the Ashley Madison data breach settlement. The highest amount reported so far is $2,915.
If you filed a claim for the Ashley Madison class action settlement, you may soon be receiving your cash payment.
The Ashley Madison data breach settlement resolves a class action lawsuit over allegations hackers broke into the extramarital dating website’s computer network, obtained information about the site’s users, and posted the Ashley Madison users’ personal information online.
Several Ashley Madison class action lawsuits were filed after the data breach was announced in June 2015. They were consolidated into multidistrict litigation in Missouri federal court under the title In re: Ashley Madison Customer Data Security Breach.
The Ashley Madison data breach class action lawsuits accused defendants Avid Life Media Inc. (now renamed as Ruby Corporation), Avid Dating Life (now renamed as Ruby Life), and Avid’s former CEO Noel Biderman of failing to properly secure the personal information of the Ashley Madison dating site users.
The Ashley Madison class action lawsuit also challenged Ashley Madison’s “full delete” or “paid delete” services, which purportedly would remove all traces of a member’s usage. The plaintiffs claim that these promises were false, and that users who paid for these services still had their personal information exposed in the Ashley Madison data breach.
Additionally, the Ashley Madison data breach class action lawsuit claimed that some user profiles were fake and used bots to engage with real users of the website. Users who engaged with these fake profiles allegedly believed they were real people and paid to communicate with them by purchasing and spending credits.
The Ashley Madison defendants agreed to pay as much as $11.2 million to settle the data breach class action lawsuit. Eligible Class Members who provided supporting documentation were eligible to submit a claim for up to $3,500 in benefits.
Class Members of the Ashley Madison data breach settlement included anyone in the United States who used Ashley Madison on or before July 20, 2015.
The deadline to file a claim for the Ashley Madison data breach class action settlement passed on Jan. 2, 2018.
Congratulations to our Top Class Actions readers who submitted a valid claim and got PAID! If you missed out, sign up for our free newsletter to receive updates on new class action lawsuits and settlements. You can also check out which class action settlements are still accepting claims in our Open Class Action Settlements section.
Class Members are represented by Douglas P. Dowd of Dowd & Dowd PC, John J. Driscoll of The Driscoll Firm PC, and by W. Lewis Garrison Jr. of Heninger Garrison Davis LLC.
The Ashley Madison Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit is In re: Ashley Madison Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, Case No. 4:15-md-02669, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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33 thoughts onAshley Madison Data Breach Class Action Settlement Checks Arrive
You have to love how many of the lawyers who claimed to be a part of this settlement, never responded when asked to add another name to the list of people wanting to be involved, and then you don’t find out that the suit has been finalized until well after the deadline, so all of the money I paid to the site to close the account was for nothing save for getting scammers trying to unlawfully extort money from me.
Ashley Madison is up to there old tricks again. I have been on the site for a decade. They just started about 3 weeks ago. With there old tricks. And ramped them up this month.
Ashley Madison is up to there old tricks again. I have been on the site for a decade. They just started about 3 weeks ago. With there old tricks. And ramped them up this month.
Please remove this post
Remove mike Murphy post
please add me
$3133.00
Mark was this your first check because checks were sent out three months ago. Did u just receive your check?
Nope
I filed a claim as well, was data breached, never received any payment or an email/call re: amount
Still haven’t got my $500.00 lost in mail since January 31st. These folks handling this are real asses!
Add me. I was part of this data breach joannepaulo@comcast.net
Steal waiting for payments.
Did u ever get your payment
got mine on the 6 of feb, 6. 2,576 what a blessing