Ashley Madison Update: Hackers Release Data of 37 Million Cheating Spouses Online

The hackers who stole the information from millions of users on the cheating website, AshleyMadison.com, have allegedly followed through on their threat. The group, known as the Impact Team, said that they have released all the information of the site's 32 million users online.

According to WIRED, the hackers uploaded 9.7 gigabytes of data on Tuesday on the dark web. WIRED reported that the information includes member account details, such as addresses, phone numbers, emails, log-in names and passwords, partial credit card numbers and other payment details. The information also included members' fantasies. Wired published one of these fantasy statements.

"I'm looking for someone who isn't happy at home or just bored and looking for some excitement," one user wrote. "I love it when I'm called and told I have 15 minutes to get to someplace where I'll be greeted at the door with a surprise-maybe lingerie, nakedness. I like to ravish and be ravished ... I like lots of foreplay and stamina, fun, discretion, oral, even willingness to experiment-*smile*"

The hackers, who breached the website in mid-July, have been threatening to release the information if the website was not taken down. They also wanted the companion site, EstablishedMen.com, taken down. The latter website connects wealthy men to young women.

The hackers had released this statement after the breach:

"Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails."

AshleyMadison.com's owner, Avid Life Media, released three statements in regards to the hack at the time of the breach. They did not, however, take down the website that advertises, "Life is short. Have an affair."

In a new statement, Avid Life Media wrote that they are "actively monitoring and investigating this situation to determine the validity of any information posted online" and will also "continue to devote significant resources to this effort."

The statement added, "This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality. It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities. The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society."

The hackers never made a request for CougarLife.com to be taken down. The sister website helps older women find younger men.