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State, city investigate Ashley Madison links

The hacked data has been publicly released, and services that search for the email addresses used on Ashley Madison’s site immediately began to populate the web. Now, that information is being spread all across the internet.

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MLive is not naming the individuals involved at this time.

While there are policies in place regarding official use of electronics, it’s unclear what discipline, if any, the employees identified in the scanned list from Ashley Madison would face.

Canada was the second-biggest source of traffic to Ashley Madison over the past month, behind the United States and up from fourth in June.

“All sorts of people are trying to find out who was on the site and if they discover someone that they know they’re then tweeting it to their friends-look who I found on the site”. The addresses may be fake.

“This dump appears to be legit”, said David Kennedy, CEO of information security company TrustedSec, which monitors cyber attacks, in a blog post.

Treasury Board spokesperson Lisa Murphy would only say that the government has rules for the professional and personal use of its computers. On Tuesday, hackers released 10 gigabytes of data.

Since city and state emails were among users on the subscribed list, city leaders have been in a scramble, starting their own investigation.

August 21, 2015)- Eight email accounts under the domain indy.gov have been linked to the cheating website Ashley Madison.

“Most accounts you create, it sends you that email back that you reply to”, More said. The number one spot is taken by Michigan State University. “Outside of the social liability problem of your spouse finding out, but your work finding out”, he said.

So who are the folks tied to those email address?

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Impact Team also told Motherboard that there’s evidence indicating that Ashley Madison and ALM’s guarantee of a “Full Delete” of accounts (which retailed on the site for $20) was a lie. “Have an affair.” However, some 37 million users of the hookup might get sorry for ever registering, since the still-unfolding leak could be now quite damaging for their reputation, professional career and marriage.

City Hall investigating Columbus employee emails on Ashley Madison site