Data watchdog contacts Canadian counterpart over breach

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.

However, the ODPC said it had not yet received any contacts from Irish people affected. However, as Ashley Madison was operating outside of Ireland, it did not have any jurisdiction should any reported Irish victims contact them.

The fallout is continuing in relation to the online data dump in which the details of the adultery site’s 37m users around the world were released online, following a hacking operation.