Hacking Scandals
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Hacked toy maker VTech changes terms to say it’s not liable for data breachesSecurity experts are urging parents to boycott electronic toy maker VTech after the company updated its terms and conditions to explicitly note that it is not responsible for any data breach.CanadaFeb 10, 2016
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4,488 had active Ashley Madison accounts despite saying they were under 18Why did a 15-year-old Saskatchewan girl, and nearly 5,000 other people who said they were under 18, have accounts on Ashley Madison?CanadaSep 3, 2015
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Where 1,296 gay Ashley Madison users face prison, flogging, executionGlobally, about 300,000 men set up Ashley Madison accounts to look for sex with other men. Some in countries, like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, that retain severe punishment for sexual contact between men.CanadaSep 2, 2015
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Avid Life Media claims ‘hundreds of thousands’ of users still signing up for Ashley MadisonAvid Life Media Inc., parent company of embattled affair facilitating website Ashley Madison, is denying claims that the website is losing users.LifestyleAug 31, 2015
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Winnipeg Ashley Madison users concentrated in a few areas: analysisWinnipeg came at the bottom of a list of Ashley Madison-using Canadian cities – but a few neighbourhoods had many people using the cheaters’ online service.Aug 28, 2015
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CEO of Ashley Madison’s parent company stepping down after massive data hackThe CEO of Ashley Madison's parent company Avid Life Media is stepping down in the wake of a massive data breach which exposed millions of users’ personal information.CanadaAug 28, 2015
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Divorce expert ‘not surprised’ Calgary was Canada’s Ashley Madison capitalThe news that Calgarians were most likely to use the site, which specialized in linking up people who want to cheat on a spouse, was “not that surprising” to one local divorce expert.CanadaAug 27, 2015
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Calgary, not Ottawa, was Canada’s Ashley Madison capitalIt turns out Canada does, in fact, have an Ashley Madison capital – and it’s Calgary, not Ottawa.CanadaAug 27, 2015
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Ashley Madison data dump blunts blackmail danger, ex-CSIS agent saysFrom the point of view of people who worry about protecting government secrets for a living, the Ashley Madison data leak has a silver lining.CanadaAug 24, 2015
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In Canada, U.K. and U.S., Ashley Madison users were over 80% maleMillions of men making arrangements to cheat on their wives through ashleymadison.com were looking for love in all the wrong places in more ways than one.CanadaAug 20, 2015
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