Amazon And GoDaddy Sued Over The Ashley Madison Data Leak

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The lawsuits over the Ashley Madison data leak are starting to pile up. The company itself is already being sued, now a trio of anonymous AM users are going after the companies that are hosting the stolen data as well.

Three anonymous Ashley Madison users are suing Amazon Web Services and GoDaddy for allegedly hosting websites that leaked the affair site's customer data to the masses. In the Arizona federal court filing posted by The Register, the John Does said they are suing the companies for "intentionally inflicting emotional distress upon Ashley Madison users."
 
Maybe they can turn this into a movie. It will be called Idiocracy II......
 
Imposing emotional stress on a person who is intentionally looking for someone to cheat with on his/her spouse or partner............

Sure...........I get it..........you don't need any more guilt or stress..........sure.
 
This will end well.. for those watching from the sidelines. :D
 
magoo said:
Imposing emotional stress on a person who is intentionally looking for someone to cheat with on his/her spouse or partner............

Sure...........I get it..........you don't need any more guilt or stress..........sure.
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Whether they were looking to cheat on their parter is irrelevant. They should be treated the exact same way as anyone else who has had their information leaked.

Putting aside whose data has been leaked, the fact still remains that hosting firms should not be held responsible for the data they host, in the same way that ISPs shouldn't be held responsible for the data transmitted over the network. Rather than suing the hosting firms they should be suing whoever it was that uploaded the data, but they won't because they know that person probably has no money.

This is disgusting not because the people involved were looking to cheat on their partners, but because it is a frivolous attempt to extract $3million from two companies that have done nothing wrong. This is a vile abuse of the legal system and is something that happens far too often.
 
Mr Milquetoast said:
This is disgusting not because the people involved were looking to cheat on their partners, but because it is a frivolous attempt to extract $3million from two companies that have done nothing wrong. This is a vile abuse of the legal system and is something that happens far too often.
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Were you expecting that people would take the moral high road or something? We are talking about the man-slime that festers at the bottom of the lying and cheating barrel. You can't tell me its a surprise to see them grubbing for money now.
 
(AND THIS IS A BIG IF)

If the plaintiffs can prove collusion or inaction when it was informed the perpetrators of said websites was hosting stolen data.

It would be akin to YouTube being issued a "Take down notice" for copyright infringement and then doing nothing about it.
 
And if they win, IF THEY WIN. How do they plan on explaining to their wife where the extra million came from that is now in their bank account.
 
They are probably going to win, which in modern "justice" means an out of court settlement.
 
DigitalGriffin said:
(AND THIS IS A BIG IF)

If the plaintiffs can prove collusion or inaction when it was informed the perpetrators of said websites was hosting stolen data.

It would be akin to YouTube being issued a "Take down notice" for copyright infringement and then doing nothing about it.
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The previous lawsuits were apparently because AM charged a fee to delete your data, but never did. I don't see any mention of this in the article.

You don't need to prove collusion or inaction, you merely have to show that AM was either knowingly negligent or did not live up to the terms of service, which is their contract with the user.
 
Mr Milquetoast said:
Whether they were looking to cheat on their parter is irrelevant. They should be treated the exact same way as anyone else who has had their information leaked.

Putting aside whose data has been leaked, the fact still remains that hosting firms should not be held responsible for the data they host, in the same way that ISPs shouldn't be held responsible for the data transmitted over the network. Rather than suing the hosting firms they should be suing whoever it was that uploaded the data, but they won't because they know that person probably has no money.

This is disgusting not because the people involved were looking to cheat on their partners, but because it is a frivolous attempt to extract $3million from two companies that have done nothing wrong. This is a vile abuse of the legal system and is something that happens far too often.
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This is pure and simple wanting to have it both ways. (morally, at least)

I do agree that it is a big abuse of the legal system, no doubt.
That and these asshats always go for the money, no matter who it is or their involvement.
I agree, the person who stole the data is the culprit, but certainly they have no cash.

I think that this will go nowhere.
 
Gweenz said:
They are probably going to win, which in modern "justice" means an out of court settlement.
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I'm not so sure.

Amazon won't lose any face by bringing this to the courts and having this discussion out in the open, which is one of the usual motivations for a settlement, Furthermore, winning this case would go far in preventing future lawsuits against Amazon's AWS service, where a settlement would just encourage more lawsuits every time there's a data breach and AWS is involved.
 
Intentionally causing emotional distress... correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't hominids supposed to be classified as vertebrates? When did you all join the same phylum as planarians?
 
Mr Milquetoast said:
Whether they were looking to cheat on their parter is irrelevant. They should be treated the exact same way as anyone else who has had their information leaked.

Putting aside whose data has been leaked, the fact still remains that hosting firms should not be held responsible for the data they host, in the same way that ISPs shouldn't be held responsible for the data transmitted over the network. Rather than suing the hosting firms they should be suing whoever it was that uploaded the data, but they won't because they know that person probably has no money.

This is disgusting not because the people involved were looking to cheat on their partners, but because it is a frivolous attempt to extract $3million from two companies that have done nothing wrong. This is a vile abuse of the legal system and is something that happens far too often.
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x2 amen. Couldnt of said it better
 
DigitalGriffin said:
(AND THIS IS A BIG IF)

If the plaintiffs can prove collusion or inaction when it was informed the perpetrators of said websites was hosting stolen data.

It would be akin to YouTube being issued a "Take down notice" for copyright infringement and then doing nothing about it.
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Is it illegal to host "stolen data"? This is isn't copyrighted data. It's not intellectual property. It's just stolen data. We have laws about certain forms of pornography and things related to violence. But what about this?
 
Eh, stuff like this happens all of the time. We get subpoenas from the FBI on a regular basis, and then the FBI goes after whoever is paying for the server and leaves us alone. They understand where the line between us and the client is, and what our obligations are in regard to data and how it relates to our hardware/servers.

I don't see AWS/GoDaddy losing this case, at all.
 
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