Of the more than 15,000 .gov and .mil email addresses releasedin a massive data dump online of alleged Ashley Madison users, fourof them belong to NCUA employees.

The email addresses of Deputy Director John Kutchey and a bankexaminations coordinator were confirmed to be among the emailsreleased in the hack. The two other NCUA email addresses allegedlyreleased in the hack could not be confirmed.

Although the NCUA emails belong to current employees, that doesnot prove they had an affair or even created the profilesthemselves.

Some news articles have reported that Ashley Madison did notrequire users to verify their email addresses; however, the websitedid specifically state that a valid email must be used to sign upand that users would receive emails from the company. Users couldthen log in to the site and opt out of receiving emails.

CU Times checked all executive level emails at the NCUAand found no others were included in the data dump. The emails werefound at both Trustifyand Ashley Cynic, two sitesthat have published the data.

Last week, hackers who called themselves Impact Team releasedthe data they had hacked more than a month ago from Ashley Madison;the site's slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.” The hackersthreatened to post the data on the “dark web” unless Ashley Madisonowner Avid Life Media took down the website and a sister websitethat serve as platforms for extramarital affairs.

When the hackers released the data last week, along with somecredit card information, sexual fantasies, phone numbers andaddresses of the users, they said some of those emails could befake.

NCUA Public Affairs Specialist John Fairbanks said he could notcomment on anything related to personnel, but said the agency isreviewing the matter.

According to the NCUA employee handbook, employees must protectand conserve federal property and not use if for unauthorizedactivities; must endeavor to avoid any actions creating theappearance that they are violating the law or the ethical standardsset forth in this part; place ethical principles above private gainand not use public office for private gain.

The concern for many government agencies has been how to handleemployees who were found to have used government equipment and worktime to access the site.

Avid Life Media said it has more than 38 million users, but thehackers said many of the female profiles are actually fake to drawin more men to establish paying memberships. The hackers onlyreleased 10 gigabytes of data and said it is holding onto moreemails, user photos and chat messages.

A Twitter user posted a break down of the more than 15,000 .govand .mil emails that were released. The Department of VeteransAffairs had the most emails attached of any government agency. TheArmy led the military side with nearly 7,000 emails followed bymore than 1,600 from the Navy, more than 800 from the Marine Corpsand 127 from the Air Force.

Data hacks have been a nightmare for government and privateagencies over the last two years after major hacks at retailerTarget, the emails of White House employees and the data breach ofmore than 21.5 million current and former federal employees.