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Houston Fire Dept. email surfaces in adultery site hack

Of the 15,000 .gov emails revealed from the Ashley Madison hack, at least one is from the Houston Fire Department

By Alice Barr
KHOU 11

HOUSTON — KHOU 11 News has confirmed that the city of Houston and two surrounding cities are looking into whether their employees used city property to log on to AshleyMadison.com.

Analysts have been pouring through the massive data dump hackers released from the cheating website. They say 15,000 users logged on through a .gov email address, including a handful from Houston City Hall.

You won’t find much sympathy for the victims of this hacking scandal, especially those caught using a government email address. Analysts say five of the exposed users logged in to Ashley Madison through city of Houston work domains.

Full story: Local cities probe worker email after Ashley Madison hack