When the company rejected the hackers’ ultimatum, they released the personal information of its more than 30 million customers worldwide.

In their statement the law firms noted that several former users of the site had paid a “kill fee” before the breach happened. The websites that offer to erase Ashley Madison user data are scams.

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The hack, in which some 33 million profiles from the service were published online, has been the focus of extortion and phishing attempts.

The plaintiff is Eliot Shore, who said he briefly joined Ashley Madison following the death of his wife to breast cancer.

Three people – including a Texas police chief – have reportedly taken their lives after their email addresses were part of the Ashley Madison hack last week. The site did not close, and the hackers released the stolen data as promised.

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It is possible Gorhum is the first person to commit suicide because of the leak, but there may be others. He also said hate crimes have been connected to the hack, but did not elaborate further. Two firms in Canada – Sutts and Strosberg LLP and Charney Lawyers – are bringing the legal action against the popular infidelity operators of the site Avid Dating Life and Avid Media.

Ashley Madison’s Canadian parent company Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they added.

“This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world”, he continued.

“The fact that some people are offended by this service provided by Ashley Madison cannot deter us and it will not deter us”, he said.

Police in Canada revealed the news during a press conference today.

Ashton is married with four children. The hackers post the names, partial credit card numbers, email and physical addresses, and sexual preferences of 32 million customers on the so-called Dark Web, meaning they are public but hard to find for ordinary Internet users.