Ashley Madison hackers claim to have pictures

Annie Donolo, a spokesman for the Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat, issued a statement Friday in response to the discovery of nearly 230 old Ontario government e-mail addressees and 59 newer Ontario.ca addresses in a massive data dump from hackers who raided Ashley Madison.

The data set apparently includes account details, log-ins, as well as credit card and payment transaction details. “In many cases, the users paid an additional fee for the website to remove all of their user data, only to discover that the information was left intact and exposed”, lawyer Ted Charney said in the statement.

A spokesman for the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs did not respond to a phone message inquiring about the fact that an email address bearing the adeca.gov domain was implicated in the hack as having been used to register an Ashley Madison account. Tuesday’s release had customer information that included government officials, British civil servants and high-level executives at European and North America corporations.

Ashley Madison, an online dating site for married persons and extramarital affairs with the slogan, “Life is short”. They probably used a throwaway email address, and I’m sure that most users have at least three emails from Gmail, Yahoo, or a number of sources willing to give out emails.

Marriage and family therapist David Christopher of Solana Beach, Calif., said in his 25 years of counseling he has had numerous clients who have acted on such impulses in a moment of loneliness or sadness and caused a lot of pain.

“I think there are valid concerns about ruining relationships and people taking their own lives and so forth because this data is so detailed”, said Beaty. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was deeply embarrassed and not authorized by the government to speak to reporters using his name. Adultery can be a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

“It looked like they attempted to send about 1,500 or 2,000 [messages] through my service”, Romero told CNNMoney. Eight of them are working addresses.

Eltis said the hack demonstrates that employers across the country need to better train workers on how to ensure companies aren’t embarrassed – or worse, blackmailed – when this kind of data breach occurs.