Ashley Madison sued over data leak

Relate offers help with “feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety” that users of the dating site may experience following the hacking, according to its website.

In the exchange, the hacker group said Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media were facilitating human trafficking and other abuses.

“The data stolen and released has far reaching social implications and people are already harvesting and creating metrics on the data”.

Von Wolffradt said they would forward the information to human resources professionals to check into the situation. “And it was easy. I have never even sent an email”.

The alleged data released by the group shows several customers used “sc.gov” e-mail addresses, including users from Greenwood County, DHEC, the state Department of Education, and Jasper County. “You take a little bit of personal information say a phone number or email address, run that in google and you can connect the dots to a huge profile of who you are as a person”.

WATE 6 On Your Side combed through the list of Tennessee users and found a Knoxville politician who used the service while he was in office, and some local members who have military emails.

Ashley Madison bills itself as “the most famous name in infidelity”. Of these, 1.2 million people are believed to be British.

Hackers dump huge data on dark website. She declined to answer a series of specific questions, but referenced the government’s guidelines that say every breach of the rules is dealt with on an individual basis.

“That’s exactly the point of the Inspector General”, Haley said. Potential embarrassment probably isn’t enough to justify that, and such a request would likely draw strong opposition from defense lawyers, he says.

“It does not, but I have got an information security team looking at it because there is a lot of media around this”, he added. And just like with any ordinary data breach, they would have to prove they were harmed in some way in order to collect damages.