Earlier this week it released some 32 million emails and user account information.
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Eight of them came from the Indy.gov addresses used at the City County Building.
The 7 Investigators have uncovered a long list of city and state email addresses tied to the cheating site.
The law firms said the lawsuit is not being brought against the hackers, who have said they attacked the website in an effort to close it down as punishment for collecting a fee without actually deleting users’ data.
The tech website it was given a contact email address for the hackers, who call themselves the Impact Team, by an intermediary.
But Inside Higher Ed notes that Ashley Madison did not verify emails and that many universities allow alumni.edu addresses to remain activated, “so it’s unclear what percentage of these addresses are those of employees”.
The couple, who have two children, say there’s nothing wrong in running a site that allows married people who want to cheat to connect with others seeking an affair.
State workers using their official email for a site like this could be violating state policy.
MLive is not naming the individuals involved at this time.
“The vast majority of the people in there were not smart about it at all”, Salter said.
Governor Robert Bentley’s office says he is looking into it.
Cyber security experts have said they expect more staged releases of sensitive information. Along with extortion, victims risk identity theft, as many personal details like addresses and partial credit card information are now available. A university spokesman says, “The university does not monitor the choices that our alumni, employees, and students make in their private lives and is not formally reviewing the information that has been leaked”. The University of Texas isn’t even in Top 10 universities with email accounts registered to the infidelity website.
Other schools include the University of Minnesota with 485, the University of Michigan with 450, and New York University with 438.
Nonetheless, Ledenbach says there is no true privacy on the Internet. It has a site where customers enter an email to see if it was part of the Ashley Madison hack, so if you are a suspicious spouse or an Ashley Madison customer, it can be checked.
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Several searchable databases of names, emails and sexual fantasies linked to the 9.7 gigabyte data leak had to shut down within minutes of going live because they could not cope with demand.
