Hacked infidelity site Ashley Madison offers free profile deletion

Move to waive account-removal fee may not be useful to users whose information is already in hands of hackers The Impact Team

Extramarital dating site Ashley Madison has apologised to its users a second time for allowing its database to be comprehensively stolen, and is temporarily offering users the ability to fully delete their account from the site free of charge.

The "paid delete" ability, which typically costs 15 in the UK and $19 in the US per account, was cited by Ashley Madison's pseudonymous attacker, The Impact Team, as a main reason for the hack in the first place. The group alleged that the site did not in fact fully delete all information about a user, even after they had paid the fee.