Early Tuesday early morning, Reuters broke the headlines that AvidLife Media, the moms and dad business of affair-driven dating/hookup web site Ashley Madison, is currently undergoing a probe by the United States Federal Trade Commission. While AvidLife formally “said it will not know the focus of its FTC that is own investigation” it’s fairly easy to find out precisely what is at problem right here.

In regards to an ago, in july 2015, ashley madison was hacked by a group known as the impact team year. The hackers proceeded to jeopardize to leak the site’s client list if AvidLife Media didn’t shut down both Ashley Madison and sis site Founded guys, which theoretically connected“sugar that is young” ladies with older, wealthier, “sugar daddy” men. The database ended up being quickly released…which ended up being simply the end regarding the iceberg.