Here's a recap of what we know so far about the Ashley Madison hack today...
A major investigation is under way after hackers claimed to have released the personal details of up to 32 million users of the Ashley Madison adultery website.
The site, which has the tagline "Life is short. Have an affair", was hacked last month by a group calling itself The Impact Team.
Hackers are now said to have fulfilled their threat and dumped 9.7 gigabytes of data - including card, account details and log-ins - on the Dark Web, which is only accessible by a covert internet browser [this covert internet browser is an app that anyone can purchase ~ editor].
Among the email addresses are many work accounts, including thousands of those used by government workers - more than 100 of them said to belong to UK Government workers [and the White House ~ editor].
However, it is unclear if members provided legitimate details as it is possible to create an Ashley Madison account using someone else's name and email. [the problem, here is this, Ashley Madison does not look for an email confirmation, thus, allowing anyone to use anyone's email ~ editor].
The hack is understood to be a protest over the charging of a leavers' fee to users to completely delete all their data. Avid Life Media, which runs Ashley Madison as well as dating sites Cougar Life and Established Men, branded the hackers "criminals" as it said it is investigating the latest claims.
[Criminals versus adulterers - I don't care. I think it is funny. Hey, I am not perfect, but I am not THIS stupid, either. The "leavers" wanted their info returned or canceled. Ashley Madison wanted $19 to delete info which infuriated the particular "leavers," and, now, Ashley Madison looks like it will be completely destroyed as a party site ~ editor]
My notes embedded in the text from the UK Telegraph, here.

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