Eight people across the US who registered to use Ashley Madison are suing the cheating website after it was hacked.

A reward of CAN$500,000 (€327,117) is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the hackers of adultery website Ashley Madison.

Two Canadian law firms have filed a CAN$757m (€511.3m) lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group's data breach exposed some 39 million memberships of the adultery website.

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has said it has contacted its counterpart in Canada over the Ashley Madison data dump, amid claims that as many as 110,000 Irish email addresses may have been included in the data breach.

A second wave of personal data alleged to have come from the adultery website Ashley Madison has been published online by the site’s hackers.

A second wave of personal data alleged to have come from adultery website Ashley Madison has been published online by the site’s hackers.

The alleged leak of user data hacked from adultery site Ashley Madison could be larger than first thought, as email addresses that claim to be linked to the British government appear among the list.

A number of email addresses associated with Government departments and State agencies have been discovered on a leaked database of the Ashley Madison website, an online dating site targeted at those who wish to cheat on their significant other.

Reuters are reporting that Ashley Madison hackers have released a second tranche of data, including source code for website and CEO emails.

The parent company of an online dating site which specialises in affairs have branded hackers who claim to have posted details of the site’s users online as criminals.

It has been claimed that hackers threatening to release the names of people using an adultery website may be bluffing.

Online dating site Ashley Madison, which specialises in adultery and has the tagline “Life is short. Have an affair”, has been the victim of a cyber attack.

A site that encourages married users to cheat on their spouses has been hacked by a group that is demanding that it be shut down.

A 24-year-old Australian man has been jailed for nine years for the one-punch attack that killed Irishman Thomas Keaney; The brother of a man murdered eight years ago was sentenced to two weeks in prison for contempt of court; Noel Gallagher reveals how marijuana ended his GAA career. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.