The inevitable has happened. If online reports are to be believed, user data of Ashley Madison, a site that facilitates extra-marital affairs, has been posted online for the world to see. AshleyMadison.com, a Canadian online dating service, that facilitates cheating in relationships, has 37 million users around the world.

The report, that leaked data from the dating site has been published online, could not been verified by any credible media outlet. The BBC reported that it did not have access to the data and could not verify its authenticity.

Nevertheless, wired.com says a lot of data nearly 10 gigabytes in size has been dumped onto the so-called dark Web, which means it is accessible only via encrypted browsers. Such data have reportedly also been uploaded on various Torrent file-sharing services over the past 48 hours.

The data posted online includes names, addresses and phone numbers purportedly attached to the member profiles of Ashley Madison. The data also includes details of credit cards and transaction information of users of the site. The BBC quoted security blogger Brian Krebs as saying that the data appears to be real.

Last month, hackers claimed they had stolen the data from the infidelity site and threatened to reveal it unless the site, that helps users find like-minded partners looking for sex outside marriage to cheat on their spouse, was taken down.

A message Time’s Up was displayed ahead of links to the files.

Ashley Madison calls it Criminal act

Ashley Madison termed the hacking an act of criminality and said it was cooperating with law enforcement agencies to find the hackers.

More than a million users of Ashley Madison live in the United Kingdom and the site has operations in over 50 countries.  The infidelity site was launched in India in 2014 and it saw overwhelming response especially from cities like Delhi and adjoining Gurgaon. It has 2.7 lakh Indian users.

The online dating site’s tagline is: “Life is short, have an affair”.