Cheating Website Ashley Madison Hack Revealed 75,000 University Email Addresses on Site

The Ashley Madison website, dedicated to conducting extramarital affairs, has a lot of university-related e-mail addresses, as the College Fix reported:

Almost 75,000 accounts to the adulterous dating site Ashley Madison were registered with .edu emails, more than all registered government emails, Inside Higher Ed reports.

The website Ashley Madison, where married people create confidential profiles seeking extramarital affairs, was hacked recently, exposing to the public eye around 36 million identities who had accounts. The Hill reportedthat more than 15,000 accounts were registered with White House, government federal agencies and military email addresses.

Inside Higher Ed’s IT team downloaded the database from the internet and found 74,468 unique email addresses “from among the 83,863 .edu addresses over all, with thousands having registered more than once.” These accounts could be university employees and students, and could include emails of alumni, although fake accounts are also likely.

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