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Review finds 1,500 federal employees (using office computers) among Ashley Madison users

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When hackers released the list of Ashley Madison users, it set off a rush to identify who might have used the service. A new report by the Associated Press finds at least 1,500 users of the site are employees of the federal government who accessed the site from work computers — and many are in sensitive positions.

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