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Company: AshleyMadison.com
Penalty: $1,657,000
Year: 2016
Date: December 14, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The operators of the Toronto-based AshleyMadison.com dating site agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission and state charges that they deceived consumers and failed to protect 36 million users' account and profile information in relation to a massive July 2015 data breach of their network.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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