"The Ashley Madison hack ruined my life"

The Ashley Madison hack is indeed ripping apart marriages.

It's exposing affairs, confirming suspicions, and retaining cheaters up at night in cold sweats.

Several people who have been at once laid low with the statistics breach of the cheating internet site AshleyMadison.Com have reached out to CNNMoney. Their identities and info had been independently verified, but they've spoken on condition of anonymity.

The mistress

"Ana" is a especially educated business lady in her 40s who's finalizing a divorce with her husband.

She stayed up late Thursday rapidly texting eight married men with whom she had relationships after finding them on Ashley Madison.

She stated the guys are all concerned their other halves will use seek tools now to be had online to find the e-mail addresses they used to sign up for the cheating website online.

Meanwhile, Ana is concerned about her task in finance. Her clients are couples and small businesses. These are tremendously personal relationships. If they plug in her electronic mail address into any of the to be had Ashley Madison searches, she'll be uncovered. And perhaps even fired.

"I could lose commercial enterprise, contracts... I'm no longer even positive if my agreement with my organization has a morality clause," she instructed CNNMoney on Friday. "It might be very damaging."

Ana claims to have had more than 50 encounters -- the whole thing ranging from "a benign flirtatious lunch" to "three days in a hotel room and ordering room provider." To her, Ashley Madison become a playground.

"Honey, I wolfed them," she stated.

The spouse of cheater

"Kimberly" is a neurophysiologist in Richmond, Virginia, who travels plenty on business. She was stuck on a grounded flight Thursday night time whilst she came throughout a news story approximately the Ashley Madison hack on her smartphone.

She and her husband were having marital troubles recently, and she or he figured she'd plug his personal e-mail cope with into a search tool.

It was a healthy, and she or he at once referred to as him. Here's how she remembers the conversation:

"What do you understand about this website, Ashley Madison?" she asked.

"I read a touch approximately how that they had a hack," he answered.

"Well, I searched your e mail, and it came up."

That's whilst he admitted he was a consumer at the site, though he kept converting his story.

"I don't know the whole tale but," Kimberly advised CNNMoney. "I'm completed. Even if it's just him getting on there looking. I do not trust him."

Kimberly is now at her dad and mom' area whilst her husband packs up his matters and finds an rental.

The soon-to-be divorcee

This week wasn't the primary time "Stacy" caught her husband dishonest. Back in January, she found his iPad unlocked, opened his photograph series and determined images of him bare in bed with any other girl.

She threw him out of their home and filed divorce papers that afternoon.

They're simply now finalizing the divorce agreement. When Stacy heard she ought to locate exposed Ashley Madison users on-line, she typed in his electronic mail cope with. Surely enough, he was a member.

Stacy hasn't visible his profile. She has no idea whether he honestly slept with each person he observed at the dating website. But she thinks the massive hack of stolen files contains data with the intention to assist her divorce.

"It proves his adulterous conduct. It might deliver me more ability to barter what I'm inquiring for within the agreement," she said.

But that doesn't mean she's glad about what she located out. And her husband's presence on Ashley Madison was nevertheless an eyeopener.

"If this will have occurred in December, I might have not even searched," she stated. "I could have just been in denial. To girls who have no suspicions, I say: test anyway. It's unhappy."

From WMUR via CNNMoney