Previous releases this week have contained millions of email addresses, including U.S. government officials, UK civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations, and emails by the company’s founder Noel Biderman. 37-million Ashley Madison users now have their personal information spread across cyberspace. We have reached out to the owners of each account via email, but we have yet to receive a response from any of them.
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Ashley Madison, which offers a dating service for people who married or in relationships, has become famous for its motto: “Life is short”.
Still, logging onto a site like Ashley Madison and using a government-issued email likely violates web policies at most municipalities in South Florida.
Tens of millions of email addresses belonging to customers of the Ashley Madison website are now available to see on the internet because of a massive data breach.
Many federal customers appeared to use non-government email addresses with handles such as “sexlessmarriage”, “soontobesingle” or “latinlovers”.
More than three quarters of those transactions are connected to the Department of National Defence but 25 have been linked to the House of Commons.
The Alabama Emergency Management Agency is aware of the fact that one email address seemingly registered to its ema.alabama.gov domain was listed in the data dump and is investigating the matter, an employee told AL.com Friday.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter confirmed Thursday the Pentagon is looking into some of the people on the list, who used military addresses. “37-million. That is a lot of angry spouses”, said Jebran Siddiqui, also of Monroe.
She says, “most people know they will play around, if they have that in their DNA”.
They include a senior member of staff at a leading accounting firm, several doctors, charity workers and even a wedding photographer.
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Avid Life Media said in a statement it considers the release of member information to be “an act of criminality” and is working with law enforcement to track down those responsible.
