Nearly 90 per cent of Aussie cheaters men

Of the registered Australian Ashley Madison accounts leaked about one in 10 users were women.

A person views the Ashley Madison dating site on a computer

(AAP) Source: AP

CHEATING BY NUMBERS: WHAT THE STATS SAY ABOUT ASHLEY MADISON USERS

* 85.9 per cent of the Australian users were male

* 3308 Australian users had paid for their data to be completely wiped but the emails were still available in the leak

* More than 500 government emails were verified, requiring access to the email inbox to do so

* At least 27,000 of Australian accounts were created with emails from domains owned by the parent company of Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media

* A disproportionate number of people from the ACT registered for an account with 19,900 users while its married population is just 138,719

* Close to 100 catholic education emails were registered, this could be staff as well as students and alumni, about a third of these were verified

* There are just over nine million married Australians and there were 1,077,479 registered users of the infidelity website in Australia

* Top five State and Territory user breakdown:

1. NSW: 352,665

2. VIC: 269 921

3. QLD: 216 036

4. SA: 68,831

5. ACT: 19,900


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