British divorce lawyers prepare for major pay day after Ashley Madison hacking

Such databases contained many things, “including much more sensitive information” than the information exposed in the Ashley Madison hack.

Even if the email in the Ashley Madison data is not a working address, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the person created the account. Plus, others like former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair are ducking for cover, claiming they’ve got nothing to do with their email addresses appearing on the site.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that hundreds of government employees with jobs at the White House, Congress and more than two dozen agencies used Internet connections in the federal offices to access the site.

The Investigation into Ashley Madison could affect the lives of 37 million people. Elsewher, e the pastebin site includes entire email addresses, including those purporting to belong to people at Boeing, Harvard and Yale universities and the Vatican.

In a statement ALM said: “We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world”.

Meanwhile two Canadian law firms say they have filed a $578 million class action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison, Avid Dating Life Inc. and Avid Media Inc.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)-Columbus City Hall confirms it has launched a probe into whether city employees used government emails and computers to register on Ashley Madison, the popular spouse-cheating website.

A group of cyber-pirates known as The Impact Team published Wednesday 9.7 gigabytes of hacked data about users of AshleyMadison.com, including e-mail accounts and information related to credit card transactions.

Smith said you take a risk anytime you put personal information online. But she would not say whether any emails have been linked by the state to Ashley Madison.

“Of course, it is important to note that email addresses can find their way onto all manner of lists and not always with the user’s knowledge”.