It looks like American cheaters have been caught with their proverbial hand in the cookie jar. When “extramarital encounter” website Ashley Madison was hacked last week, 10 gigabytes of usage data was released showing that family values aren’t necessarily as strong in the US as we might have hoped.
It seems that married across the nation have been signing up in droves to troll for mutual cheating hook-ups. Men and women, have been searching for matches with similarly minded adulterers. No emotional relationship is desired, just a casual hookup with someone other than their regular partner. Customers were assured confidentiality, but this breach has outed many users.
The hack is wreaking havoc in both small towns and big cities from coast to coast, and, indeed, around the world. It’s a sad state of affairs. It’s not that surprising, really, but it is interesting to see the breakdown of where significant sign-ups occurred.
The state of Alabama has been revealed as the adultery capital of the US after it was found to have – by a long shot – the highest levels of credit card activity on the extra-marital cheating website Ashley Madison among all 50 states.
A ranking of the states was compiled by a contributor who collated the information using credit card details leaked on the web and US census data. It showed that of the millions of customers in the US paying regularly to use the site, Alabama State had the most.
The level of usage was so high that even a city mayor was implicated in the data dump. The Mayor of Harselle in Morgan County Don Hall denied signing up for the site and said he couldn't explain how his name had made it on to the list.
William K Bradford, a partner at Bradford Ladner law firm in Mountain Brook Alabama said he was not overly surprised that Alabama had been named as the most unfaithful state and said it had a history of high divorce rates.
Several suicides have already been blamed on the leaked data.
It seems that married across the nation have been signing up in droves to troll for mutual cheating hook-ups. Men and women, have been searching for matches with similarly minded adulterers. No emotional relationship is desired, just a casual hookup with someone other than their regular partner. Customers were assured confidentiality, but this breach has outed many users.
The hack is wreaking havoc in both small towns and big cities from coast to coast, and, indeed, around the world. It’s a sad state of affairs. It’s not that surprising, really, but it is interesting to see the breakdown of where significant sign-ups occurred.
The state of Alabama has been revealed as the adultery capital of the US after it was found to have – by a long shot – the highest levels of credit card activity on the extra-marital cheating website Ashley Madison among all 50 states.
A ranking of the states was compiled by a contributor who collated the information using credit card details leaked on the web and US census data. It showed that of the millions of customers in the US paying regularly to use the site, Alabama State had the most.
The level of usage was so high that even a city mayor was implicated in the data dump. The Mayor of Harselle in Morgan County Don Hall denied signing up for the site and said he couldn't explain how his name had made it on to the list.
William K Bradford, a partner at Bradford Ladner law firm in Mountain Brook Alabama said he was not overly surprised that Alabama had been named as the most unfaithful state and said it had a history of high divorce rates.
Several suicides have already been blamed on the leaked data.
