Ashley Madison agrees $11m US settlement in wake of hack

Ashley Madison, a dating website that marketed itself as enabling extramarital affairs, has agreed to pay out $11m in damages to US-based users in order to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it misrepresented the level of security it could provide.
Covert members of the controversial dating website were left aghast two years ago when hackers walked off with confidential customer details after breaching the website’s security.
During the ensuing fallout, which saw chief executive N