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When hackers began dumping loads of private user information obtained from cheating website Ashley Madison, the tech along with the media community quickly picked up some high profile individuals as part of the infidelity website's user base.
Latest reports claim that intelligence agencies stationed all over the world also started checking the leaked data in order to check if some of their employees have also used the website. One particular and prominent spy agency, the British secret service, has already started checking the dumped data in order to see if its own staff are also part of the cheating website.
Aside from checking if its work force is part of the website's user base, some international spying agencies are also scouring the dumped data in order to find potential intelligence targets.
A source from the British government told The Telegraph, "We have been looking at it to see if our people are vulnerable. But there are also people looking at it to see how it can be used. Some countries will be looking at it for blackmail."
The recent Ashley Madison data dumped is comprised of millions of user information spanning all over the globe. Spy agencies are painstakingly checking these records that could contain personal information from individuals working in sensitive areas of the government and even private corporations.
Despite the recent backlash of public opinion about Ashley Madison, the website reported an increase in traffic. Just a couple weeks after the hackers dumped sensitive user information on the public domain, the website reported that more than 87,000 women signed up into the website, according to NBC News.
