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I'll bring my handcuffs... The Fifty Shades immigration officer and other public sector staff found on adultery website

Source: By Vanessa Allen and Sara Smyth for the Daily Mail, 21/08/2015

• Scores of civil servants and public officials subscribed to Ashley
Madison
• Officials in the Home Office and Immigration Service used the website
• Hackers dumped millions of subscriber email accounts onto the 'dark web'
• Some civil servants used their specially secure work email accounts
• Scores of civil servants and public officials subscribed to Ashley
Madison
• Officials in the Home Office and Immigration Service used the website
• Hackers dumped millions of subscriber email accounts onto the 'dark web'
• Some civil servants used their specially secure work email accounts
Civil servants used official Government email addresses to register
profiles and explicit sexual fantasies on an adultery website, it can
be revealed.

Officials in sensitive roles at departments including the Home Office,
the Ministry of Justice and the Inland Revenue used their `secure`
work emails to set up accounts on Ashley Madison, a website for those
seeking illicit affairs.

One married Immigration Service official used his Home Office work
email for his profile, which included the request: `Let me know if I
should turn up in uniform and bring my handcuffs.`

Civil servants and public officials used their official email accounts
to join the Ashley Madison website for people seeking illicit affairs,
which was headed by Noel Biderman, centre
The details of the subscriber email account addresses were leaked by a
group of hackers earlier this week
Experts fear that security could be compromised after officials used
work email accounts on the illicit site
A senior Inland Revenue civil servant described himself as a `great
dad` before specifying he wanted to meet a `curvy raven haired MILF` –
a sleazy internet acronym.

Both men used their work emails on the Government Secure Intranet
(GSI), which is intended to let civil servants and police send
confidential and restricted information securely.

Their details were among the millions of Ashley Madison accounts
released on to the internet after the site was hacked, prompting calls
for senior civil servants to be questioned in Parliament about the
potential security risk.

Some 1.2million of the site`s 37million members were said to be
British. Many of those named have claimed their email addresses have
been stolen or used without their knowledge.

The site did not require users to verify their email addresses,
although several of the civil servants` accounts included personal
details such as home post codes, suggesting they were genuine. Other
email accounts used on the site were from the UN and the Vatican, and
from top firms including JP Morgan, Amazon and BAE Systems.

Email addresses from British NHS trusts, universities, schools, fire
brigades and police forces were also found in the vast cache of data,
along with email accounts for two workers from the secret Defence
Science and Technology Laboratory, which researches chemical and
biological weapons as part of the Ministry of Defence. MP Tim
Loughton, a member of the Home Affairs select committee, said: `This
is very worrying.

`If people in sensitive Government positions are using Government
email addresses to register on such a website, then clearly it raises
serious questions about their judgment.

`But if, as looks possible, Government email accounts in what should
be secure departments are this vulnerable to being hacked or
impersonated that raises its own serious security issues.`

The data was stolen last month by hackers who called themselves the
Impact Team and who threatened to make it public unless the site was
shut down.

They released it earlier this week and Ashley Madison, founded by
internet entrepreneur Noel Biderman, has confirmed that some of the
details had come from its database, although it said other information
in the `data dump` was not related to its site.

Ashley Madison`s parent company, Canadian firm Avid Life Media, says
the hackers are criminals and that the FBI and police in Canada are
investigating.

A Home Office spokesman said: `The Civil Service Code outlines the
values and standards of behaviour expected of all civil servants.`
■Hackers have targeted another dating site, Plenty of Fish, to steal
bank details. People who have visited the site in the last week are
likely to have had spy software installed on their computers which
will activate when they log on to a banking site, it is feared. Around
half a million Britons use Plenty of Fish.

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