Days after news broke that Ashley Madison had been hacked, details began to surface that provide some insight on the adultery website's users, who –for their part – must be reading the new developments with increasing agitation. The recent update involves a report that shows a staggering number of residents in Ottawa, Canada, are subscribers. One in five, or roughly 20 percent of Ottawans, have accounts on Ashley Madison, according to Reuters. providing the city with the distinction with the highest subscription rate not just in Canada but perhaps the entire world.
"Everybody says Ottawa is a sleepy town and here we are with 200,000 people running around on each other," resident John Weaks said in the Reuters report. There are 189,810 users reported out of the 883,000 residents of the city.
Officials at Ashley Madison's Canadian subsidiary are now in "meltdown" as they struggle to calm their restless users who are understandably nervous with the possibility that their personal information and, yes, illicit sexual preferences, would be revealed before the world, Fox News reported. The website owners are working with law enforcement to identify those responsible for the data breach, HNGN earlier reported. An emerging theory that could reassure the users somewhat involves the argument that the hackers are motivated by ideology and not profit. This would mean that the attack might be targeting the website itself and not its subscribers.
The number of subscribers identified in Ottawa, which is only the fourth largest Canadian city, could place the total subscription rate for Canada significantly higher than the figure posted in Australia. Two days ago, it was revealed that one million Australian users could be exposed in the Ashley Madison hack, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The total number of subscribed users to Ashley Madison hookup service is estimated to be around 37 million globally and the hackers have threatened to release all their personal information.
