15,000 government emails revealed in Ashley Madison leak

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/251431-ashley-madison-leak-appears-real-includes-thousands-of-government-emails

By Cory Bennett
The Hill
08/19/15

Thousands of clients using the affair-oriented Ashley Madison website 
listed email addresses registered to the White House, top federal agencies 
and military branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.

The detailed data, released Tuesday, will likely put Washington, D.C., on 
edge. The nation’s capital reportedly has the highest rate of membership 
for the site of any city.

Indeed, more than 15,000 of the email addresses used to register accounts 
were hosted on government and military servers.

Buried in the list are emails that could be tied to multiple 
administration agencies, including the State Department and Department of 
Homeland Security, as well as several tied to both the House and Senate.

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