Amidst the exposure of more information from infidelity site Ashley Madison, class-action suits now follow in the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian suit names the corporations that run Ashley Madison but not the hackers, while an Oklahoma firm “appears to be seeking out plaintiffs,” Fusion reports. NBC reports lawsuits filed over the hack will be challenging, noting, “Those who take legal action will likely out themselves as one of the notorious website's purported 39 million members. And just like with any ordinary data breach, they would have to prove they were harmed in some way in order to collect damages.” Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald likens reactions to the Ashley Madison hack to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
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