Ashley Madison customer service in meltdown as site battles hack fallout

Reps claim system is 'completely secured' and that hackers 'weren't successful', while denying more than 2,500 customer records have been released

Extramarital dating site Ashley Madison is in disarray with its customer service centre telling users their accounts are secure despite the company admitting its user records have been stolen.

More than 2,500 customer records have been released to the public by attackers who claim to have stolen the total database of the site, which claims to have more than 33 million members in 46 countries.