to prove civil liability be once you have the criminal liability. and the hackers or impact teams that would be a task for the feds, but look, troy, the hackers claim we did this because the website is immoral. that may be true but in a court of law, that is not a legal defense? it is no defense and ashley madison could be on the hook for civil liability, but anyone suing ashley madison for the loss or breach of private information would have to show that ashley madison would have to show the computer protocols fell so far below the national standard to make them negligent. we can see the federal government and office of personnel management was not be
business lawyers. and the lawyers that are making money and looking at. was ashley madison practicing safe cyber security. regardless of the assurances they made. they have to show they took every reasonable precaution. ashley madison said it is not hackicism but criminal activity. but they are out of business and no one will use the site after. this life is short, have an affair. they might want to rethink that. wendy and patrick and troy, thank you so much. thing about thing is, 15000 of the e-mail users were government and military domains. so they were using work e-mail. government e-mail comes up again. a theme in our show. they could get in a wee bit
it can be viewed, using a special browser that anybody can buy. and so could the ashley madison website face legal action? we have wendy on a trial attorney. and clay joins us former prosecutor. let s take all of these separately, the potential legal actions and wendy, begin with crimes, not lawsuits, but crimes. is it a crime to hack and extort? it certainly is. you know, this is not only hack but a hijack. it is a federal crime to hack in the system and steal the information but further we see the extortion activity. cyber exploitation and so criminally, there is a lot of directions this might go once we learn how it happen. and i know we will get to the civil lawsuits, but it is easier
illegal immigrants in the u.s. because they need to go. jeb bush has questioned whether trump s plan is grounded in reality. what mr. trump proposed will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and desrupt communities. reporter: he will likely face questions from voters on the issue. jenna. we want to hear from you. do you agree with the immigration policies of donald trump. go join the conversation. actors have posted information stolen from the ashley madison website that openly caters to people interested in extra marital affairs. it had the addresses and contact info and dumped on a part of the internet known as the dark web.
able to keep information secret. and when a bank gets robbed. if skilled thieves do it you can t prove negligence on the part of the bank. wendy, here s what the hacker ares said they would do, and it appears the best we can tell. we will release customer records and profiles and the customer s secret sexual fantasy and real names and addresses and credit card transactions and employee documents and e-mails. all right, so clearly, users might try to sue ashley madison. it goes beyond remorse and divorce. one of the things everybody will look at and those who admit to step up and bring action, what representations were made to them that led them to believe