Perkiomenville Identified Among Eastern PA Communities For Ashley Madison Affairs

Personal data from a hack of the Ashley Madison hookup website that promotes “discreet” dating encounters continues to leak. And more information is becoming available and accessible to the public on the Internet.

And now Pennsylvania, and many of its communities, have found themselves in the crosshairs of that publicized information.

One Reddit data collection identified Pennsylvania as 15th highest on the list of states with the most unfaithful husbands and wives in the country.

And another data collection has identified the numbers of users in each county, and each state in the United States, putting those towns on a map called “Malfideleco,” which means “infidelity” in the Esperanto language.

Tecnilógica, a Madrid-based digital agency, created the world map that shows the distribution of Ashley Madison users around the world without identifying names. It also analyzed their composition in terms of gender balance (the list of New Jersey towns are below).

On the Reddit user list, Alabama was first, followed by Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Is this list plausible? Pottstown, for example, has approximately 22,000 people, but the map says it has 4,049 Ashley Madison users. That means approximately 18 percent of the town’s residents have used the site.

In a 2014 report, Psychology Today magazine said more than 90 percent of Americans believe infidelity is unacceptable, yet 30 to 40 percent of the people engage in it. “Infidelity is associated with adverse outcomes such as depression, domestic violence, divorce, even homicide,” according to the report.

The revelations go back more than a month, when a group of hackers called The Impact Team broke into Ashley Madison’s data, obtaining names and personal information — credit card info, sexual habits, likes and desires and such.

Some have targeted the hackers and the company, looking to punish them both for the data breach. The Canadian government, where Ashley Madison is located, said it is investigating two suicides possibly related to the hack, and some attorneys who have filed $578 million class action lawsuit against the company.

Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the people involved in the hack.

Here is the list of the 30 eastern Pennsylvania communities identified as having the most Ashley Madison users:

1. West Chester, 10,691
2. Philadelphia, 8,618
3. Levitttown, 6,591
4. Norristown, 4,325
5. Doylestown, 4,166
6. Pottstown, 4,049
7. Bensalem, 3,550
8. King of Prussia, 2,967
9. Downingtown, 2,826
10. Media, 2,422
11. Warminster, 2,262
12. Phoenixville, 2,226
13. Quakertown, 2,197
14. Langhorne, 2,142
15. Collegeville, 2,102
16. Exton, 1,764
17. Havertown, 1,686
18. Drexel Hill, 1,665
19. Conshohocken, 1,654
20. Upper Darby, 1,602
21. Royersford, 1,589
22. North Wales, 1,548
23. Horsham, 1,475
24. Willow Grove, 1,414
25. Glenside, 1,368
26. Marcus Hook, 1,262
27. Hatboro, 1,102
28. Clifton Heights, 1,083
29. Hatfield, 1,058
30. Boomall, 1,043

Other Patch-area towns identified as having Ashley Madison users:

• Lansdowne, 1,020
• Harleysville, 1,013
• Huntingdon Valley, 1,005
• Plymouth Meeting, 999
• Chestnut Hill, 801
• Chester, 785
• Narberth, 462
• Haverford, 343
• Gladwyne, 275
• Perkiomenville, 214
• Limerick, 169
• Montgomeryville, 136
• Radnor, 68