On Tuesday, a huge trove of data stolen from the extramarital-affairs website's servers was leaked online.
As well as confidential internal documents, this included user data on the site's 32 million users.
The information ranges from email addresses and financial details to physical descriptions and detailed sexual preferences.
According to multiple media reports on Friday, blackmailers have started trawling the database, widely available online, in an attempt to extort the users on it.
Bitcoin-news outlet CoinDesk was sent an email from a reader who apparently had an account on Ashley Madison. The reader had received an email from a would-be blackmailer called "Team GrayFlay" threatening to expose them unless they sent the extorter some bitcoins.
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I can't believe all of the idiots that used their government email addresses on the site. It's not even blackmail. It is now public information.
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