ATTUNGA locals are the most adulterous in the New England according to a breakdown of the data revealed after an international cheating website was hacked.
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And, the details of local users are among the millions exposed online as the fallout from the Ashley Madison dating website unravels.
Ashley Madison is an online dating site used by people looking to have extramarital affairs, but the details of its customers have been released online after hackers gained access to the site.
According to the data released, there are 400 accounts with Ashley Madison in Attunga, while in Tamworth, 1774 are signed up to the cheating site.
Already, details of users including their names, profiles information, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and even information connected to their employers if they signed up at work, have been posted online.
And, the massive privacy breach could get worse, with hackers threatening to release explicit chats as well as naked photos of users.
A Fairfax Media analysis of the data with developer Luke Metcalfe has examined the locations users entered when they signed up to Ashley Madison, to find where they are based.
Almost 10 per cent of Werris Creek’s population have accounts with Ashley Madison, while six per cent of Moree’s population signed up using the town’s postcode.
Armidale, the wider Liverpool Plains area and Gunnedah all had more than 4 per cent of the population signed up with an Ashley Madison account, while Narrabri and Walcha had just over 3 per cent of the town’s using the cheating website.
Fairfax Media has created an online map(*) based on the data from profiles when users signed up to Ashley Madison, but the website doesn’t verify email addresses when men and women log on for the first time.
Some of the data could be based on fake addresses used by subscribers to the site, but Ashley Madison tries to pair users with adulterers who live in the same area.
ADULTEROUS AREAS
Table shows town, number of accounts and percentage of postcode
Armidale 898 4.58
Attunga 400 65.04
Gunnedah 343 4.29
Inverell 302 2.65
Liverpool Plains 151 4.14
Moree 483 6.11
Narrabri 241 3.72
Tamworth 1774 4.93
Walcha 90 3.16
Werris Creek 141 9.99
*See the map on our website