The original leak included the names, credit card details and various other pieces of information on millions of users.
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The news outlet has traced more than two dozen other Obama’s administration officials to the website including people from the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security.
The group behind the attack – The Impact Team – breached Ashley Madison’s servers last month, and now claim to have released this data to the Dark Web; a sub-level of the internet that cannot be accessed through normal browsers, and is often described as the “internet black market”. But he said he used the account strictly for “opposition research”.
The site had helped Ashley Madison users find out if their personal and financial information was released.
On Thursday, the Pentagon announced it was looking into the more than 13,000 email addresses with military domains that appeared on the website.
Quartz shows a global map of Ashley Madison email accounts, which is broken down by gender. At the same time, the humiliation that could result from a person’s Ashley Madison membership becoming public probably isn’t a big enough deal in the eyes of the courts to allow a lawsuit to go forward, he says.
The law firms’ statement said numerous former users of the website have approached them to inquire about their privacy rights under Canadian law.
In a statement issued in response to the release of the data, Air Chief Marshal Binskin said there was no evidence Australian-based systems or networks had been compromised.
Smith said you take a risk anytime you put personal information online.
The employees with the sensitive jobs are of the most concern because they could be subjected to blackmail.
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His firm partnered with Charney Lawyers this week when filing the suit against Avid Dating Life Inc. and Avid Life Media Inc., the two companies that operate AshleyMadison.com.
