Ashley Madison: five people on getting caught up in the data breach

This week 33 million records of people who had used a website for secret affairs had their names and identifying details leaked online by hackers. We spoke to five people for whom the hack has had profound personal ramifications

I joined Ashley Madison this year, during a very, very stressful period, both personally and professionally. But my intentions were never actually to meet another woman, and I quickly realised that this was not going to be a good way of meeting new people.

In total, I used the site for a single month, getting almost zero responses. Once I realised that it was going nowhere, and that I would have never left my family behind, I decided to just quit. So I paid my a19 (15) to get rid of everything, deleted the mobile app and removed everything: email accounts, messages, etc.