MORE than 200 Ammanford people registered to an adultery site have had their details leaked online following a hack targeted at the website.

A total of 218 men and women who are seeking to cheat have been named and shamed via the hack on the Ashley Madison website which saw their details being realised onto the net.

Over in the Towy Valley, 47 of Llandeilo’s wedded residents were also revealed to be on the dating site, which allows people to cheat on their partners with fellow users.

The hack on Ashley Madison- slogan “Life’s Too Short, Have an Affair”- saw the details of millions of users spread across the web in a data dump last month when 10 gigabytes of data was stolen.

Member’s names, addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and email addresses were among the data placed onto the dark web, only accessible through encrypted browsers, by hackers. It followed a warning from campaign group The Impact Group who said the details would be released unless the website was taken down.

The hacked data has since been collated into a “digital map” of users, including where they are from.

West Wales figures also showed 700 registered users in Llanelli and 387 in Carmarthen. Around 2,800 were registered from the Swansea area.

Although the data was only available on the dark web, sites were set up to enable worried cheaters to see if their details had been among the date released. This was searchable only via a registered email address but it is thought that due to the Ashley Madison security features and a lack of an email verification process, some of these emails could have been used fraudulently.

This map has also shown the gender of users, highlighting that 85% of west Wales’ users were male.

Canadian-based Ashley Madison-the 18th most visited adult site in the world with more than 38m members- has offered a £240,000 reward for information on the hack and leak, which is also being investigated by Canadian police.