An attorney for the former chief technology officer of AshleyMadison.com is threatening a libel lawsuit against this author unless the story is retracted. Raja Bhatias attorney says the headline of the article is defamatory. He says he hacked into a rival dating website, exfiltrating their entire user database in 2012. The author says he has no intention of posting a retraction or correcting any elements of this story. The libel laws in the United States are difficult and expensive for the plaintiff to win in the U.S.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/ex-ashley-madison-cto-threatens-libel-suit/