Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit
Summary: An attorney for Raja Bhatia, former chief technology officer of AshleyMadison.com, is threatening a libel lawsuit against KrebsOnSecurity unless the site retracts a story about a November 30, 2012 email in which Bhatia told CEO Noel Biderman he had downloaded and could manipulate the entire nerve.com user database. Krebs said he will not retract or correct the story and published the lawyer's letter, noting that Canadian libel law places the burden on the accused to prove the disputed claims are true.
What you should know: The dispute turns on a single leaked email in which a former CTO wrote 'I got their entire user base' about a competitor's dating site, and the legal exposure runs through Canada, where Avid Life Media and Bhatia's attorney are based and where the defendant must prove the claim true rather than the plaintiff proving it false.
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