Personal data security

Ashley Madison hack could mean trouble for some feds, troops

The release of personal information reportedly belonging to more than 36 million members of adultery-focused dating site AshleyMadison.com contains 15,000 email addresses with military or federal government domains, according to a separate online data dump.

The unverified totals, posted by Twitter user @t0x0 and cited by Wired magazine and other media outlets, include 6,788 addresses ending in "us.army.mil," another 1,665 ending in "navy.mil," 809 ending in "usmc.mil" and 206 in "mail.mil."

The data dump also includes more than 875 .gov addresses linked to federal agencies, including 44 addresses from the White House domain. The remainder were state and local addresses or obviously fake.