Following the hacking last month of Ashley Madison, a website that specialised in facilitating adulterous affairs, the group of activists behind the hack have dumped online what the claim to be the stolen data. This includes the names, email addresses and credit card transactions of the 37 million signed up Ashley Madison members.

If the information in the data dump is authentic, and it does seem so, it will be a goldmine for fraudsters, blackmailers, divorce lawyers and journalists; tying credit card transactions to online profiles of people looking to cheat on their spouses. Guido counted around 130 people who apparently signed up to Ashley Madison with gov.uk email addresses. That’s a lot of potential Brooks Newmarks…