Cheating website Ashley Madison is now being sued by eight of its own members in the US. The charges were filed after the dating website was hacked which made the personal information, including sexual and financial data of over millions of users were exposed to the public.
The complainants are Ashley Madison users across the US including California, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee and Minnesota. They all request class-action status to portray the estimated 37 million registered users of the said website.
The hacked members of the site demand justice for the damages and privacy violations caused by the administration's negligence. The accusers said that Ashley Madison failed to protect the users' security especially for those who paid special fees to purposely delete their personal information.
Hackers intruded the controversial website last month and downloaded almost all of the private information. The users' details which includes names, emails, home address, financial data and message history were then revealed publicly last week.
In a certain filed lawsuit, a user complained about storing personal and financial information on Ashley Madison website which will someday bring terrible consequences to users. The lawsuit was filed in behalf of a Los Angeles man who created an account with the dating website last 2012.
Also, the Baltimore-based firm of Hammond Law stated in the filed lawsuit that Ashley Madison's poor data security led to the humiliation of the website's members.
"As a result of (Ashley Madison's) unfair, unreasonable and inadequate data security, its users' extremely personal and embarrassing information is now accessible to the public," according to the firm.
According to the hackers who breached the website's data, the reason for their invasion is for the sake of the deceived members. They said that they invaded the website as retribution for not actually deleting the user's data even if the user is paying an extra fee of $19.
It was said that some of the information of U.S government workers were revealed in the breach. Few were with sensitive jobs in White House, Congress, and Justice Department. Most of the exposed users were also connected to provincial, municipal and federal workers of Canada.
