A thread above alleges that barack.obama@whitehouse.gov and tblair@labour.gov.uk were found in the data base. Do you really think those two leaders used or even signed up for AM?
You'd have to be really thoughtless to use your work or official government email account on a dating site, let alone one with a shady premise such as this.
True, but there are plenty of idiots everywhere, including in government.
The real question is, do they require e-mail verification after signup? If they do, the list is a lot more valuable.
They do, I read somewhere that out of 35 million addresses in the system, only 24 million are verified. Still, I imagine that there would be false positives in the verified emails list (for instance someone clicked on it by accident or without reading it as they were signing up for something else, etc).
People really need to be smarter about using prepaid debit cards and throwaway email addresses. I've found multiple cc transactions from people in the neighborhood and people at my job.
A lot of those were obviously fake emails though (foxmulder@fbi.gov for example)