Hackers release infidelity site Ashley Madison’s customer details

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.

Website Ashley Madison, which has the tagline “Life is short. Have an affair”, was hacked last month by a group calling itself The Impact Team. The group who claimed to have complete access to a database of more than 37m members, now say they have fulfilled their threat to post customer records online.

The hack is understood to be a protest over the charging of a leavers’ fee to users to completely delete their data.