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title: "Ashley Madison forced to pay for deceptive security practices"
date: "2016-12-15T13:27:32+00:00"
url: "https://checkmarx.com/in-the-news/ashley-madison-forced-pay-deceptive-security-practices/"
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# Ashley Madison forced to pay for deceptive security practices

Amit Ashbel, cyber-security evangelist at Checkmarx told *SC Media UK*, “on a day that Yahoo admits that one billion account credentials have been stolen. The fine that Ashley Madison got seems like peanuts.”  
“I think it’s important to enforce cyber-security in one way or another. A fine seems like the most obvious option, just like any business is fined for not fulfilling regulations or laws. That said, a tech organisation should always have their user’s data security as top priority and make sure they take all necessary actions to avoid such events in the future.”  

*The full article is available on [SC Magazine](https://scmagazineuk.com/ashley-madison-forced-to-pay-for-deceptive-security-practices/article/579422/).*