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Ashley Madison boss quits─── 12:17 Sat, 29 Aug 2015
New York - The chief executive of infidelity website Ashley Madison's parent company Avid Life, Noel Biderman, has left the company, weeks after hackers launched a cyber assault that leaked sensitive data about millions of clients.
Avid Life said the departure was by "mutual agreement".
The Canadian company was rocked by the release of Ashley Madison customer data on 18 August by hackers who claimed to be unhappy with its business practices.
The data dump contained email addresses of U.S. government officials, UK civil servants, and workers at European and North American corporations, taking already deep-seated fears about Internet security and data protection to a new level.
Police investigating the cyber-attack said it has sparked extortion attempts and at least two unconfirmed suicides.
Biderman founded Ashley Madison in 2001 and it was acquired by Avid Life Media in 2007. A second data dump by the hackers released thousands of Biderman's own emails and other company documents.
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