After Ashley Madison, a website for affairs, was hacked last month, it was revealed that over 100 ESPN employees had accounts on the website.
Ashley Madison was an online dating service and social networking site that was specifically marketed to people who were married or in a committed relationship. The slogan for the site was "Life is short. Have an affair."
After the contents of the Ashley Madison hack was made public, it was revealed that 101 ESPN employees were registered with the website, according to Deadspin. 39 ESPN employees registered on the site with their ESPN employee email address while another 62 were later discovered. The 62 other users were identified because they used well known and very public ESPN IP addresses at the time they signed up. The dozens of employees included executives, vice-presidents, producers, senior finance directors and marketing higher ups.
The overall list of Ashley Madison users was 90 percent to 95 percent male, according to Sploid. Interestingly enough, while only 5 percent to 10 percent of overall users were females, 20 percent of the group identified as ESPN employees were women.
ESPN had the most Ashley Madison users of any sports media organization, reported Deadspin. The NFL had 18 registered accounts, NBA had 25 users, WWE employed 25 registered with the site and NBC hosted 47 people on Ashley Madison.
ESPN says about 4,000 employees work out of its Bristol headquarters in Connecticut.
