Something like 12000 Saudi email addresses were amongst those found. Adultery punnishable by death there. This is very serious for them. I feel for them. That's a punnishment that doesn't fit the crime.
Unless it's the women. Even in power they'll have their heads chopped off. Important men though, no problem.
Smear campaign Yes these hackers have an issue with someone from the SNP OK. The site would keep the emails of everyone who's ever registered whether they used the service or not. Tut Tut Michelle
Are the Duggars famous in UK? (weird far-right cult family with 19 kids with dumb reality show) Turns out Josh Duggar, the one that sexually assaulted his young sisters was a paying member of Ashley Madison. http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091
The website doesn't validate emails. So if Gerrez signed up using Mito's email address it would show Mito having used the site. The credit card info is the real smoking gun. The data dump includes c.c info for lots of people INCLUDING the address of the c.c.
I don't think there is a set of card creds for every email. Otherwise it would be easy for the media to tie actual people to email adresses, with no room for squirming and saying "it's a smear campaign" I reckon the dump has been polluted with extra email addresses just to bulk it up.