Hundreds of employees of the US government, some of them with jobs in the White House, Congress and federal agencies judicial-used internet connections in their offices to access and pay membership dues portal for infidels Ashley Madison dating, according to an analysis by The Associated Press on data obtained by hackers.
The Associated Press investigation found that among the subscribers there are at least two federal prosecutors assistants; a manager of information technology executive office of the president; a division chief, an investigator and a lawyer from the Department of Justice; a hacker government service in the Department of Homeland Security and other employees of the ministry who said work in a team of counter-terrorist response.
Few of them paid for their services with their accounts email the government; but the AP tracked their Internet connections in government -guardadas weblog website for five years and revised its credit card transactions to identify them. Among them are employees of more than two dozen agencies of President Barack Obama, including the departments of State, Defense, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security. Other networks subscribers came from the House of Representatives or the Senate.
The AP does not mention by name subscribers government employees found because they are not elected officials or They are accused of a crime.
Computer hackers revealed this week detailed records of millions of people registered in the website, a month after cracking into Avid Life Media Inc., the Ashley Madison parent company based in Toronto. The website, whose slogan is “Life is short, have an affair.” – Is marketed to facilitate extramarital affairs
Many federal customers apparently used E-mail addresses government indicators as “sexlessmarriage”, “soontobesingle” or “latinlovers”. Some employees of the Department of Justice apparently used prepaid credit cards to help them preserve their anonymity, but were connected to the service from your office computers.
“I did some things I should not have have been doing, “he told the AP a researcher from the Department of Justice. Asked about the threat of blackmail, the researcher said that to happen, he revealed his actions to his family and employer to avoid it. “I’ve worked too hard all my life to be a victim of blackmail that would not happen,” he added. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said he was very ashamed and because he was not authorized by the government to talk with reporters by name.
The analysis of the AP also found hundreds of transactions associated networks DoD either the Pentagon or connections armed services elsewhere.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter confirmed that the Pentagon is considering the list people who used e-mail addresses of the armed forces. Adultery can be a criminal offense under the code of military justice.
A spokesman for the White House said on Thursday he could not immediately comment on the matter. The administrator of information technology White House did not answer messages sent via email.
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