New details have emerged about the actions taken by hacked infidelity dating site Ashley Madison after users paid to delete their data. The Register news site has published a report in which it suggests that a variety of personal data was removed from a database.
However, some information, such as users’ GPS co-ordinates, gender and date of birth was retained. The “Full Delete” option has been available for several years. It allowed users to pay $19 (£15) to erase “all traces of [their] usage” but Ashley Madison had not issued complete details on how the tool worked.
Following the release of the user database by hackers last week, there were several reports suggesting that the pay-to-delete function was flawed.
