19 Arizona state employee addresses in Ashley Madison data

The government e-mail addresses of 19 Arizona state employees were among the 32 million that hackers claim to have stolen from cheating website AshleyMadison.com and posted on the Internet.

Eleven of the e-mail addresses were for the Arizona Department of Corrections. Five have a Department of Economic Security addresses. And there was one each for the Arizona Corporation Commission, Department of Racing and Department of Administration.

It's possible those employees did not register on the adultery site. The website does not require email addresses to be verified so members could use another person's email address to sign up and log onto Ashley Madison.

Last month, hackers who call themselves the Impact Team, demanded that Avid Life Media take down the site. The site’s motto is, “Life is short. Have an affair.”

In a statement issued Tuesday, Avid Life Media said it is “actively monitoring and investigating this situation to determine the validity of any information posted online and will continue to devote significant resources to this effort. Furthermore, we will continue to put forth substantial efforts into removing any information unlawfully released to the public, as well as continuing to operate our business.”

The company called the hack a criminal act against people who chose to engage in legal online activities.

“The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society,” according to the statement.

Arizona state e-mail addresses typically include @az. For example, a Department of Corrections employee address would end with @azcorrections.gov.

There were no state addresses from the Governor’s Office or the state Legislature.

According to the Arizona Department of Administration, which oversees state employee issues, there is no policy expressly forbidding state employees from using their work e-mail address for personal purposes. The state policy allows for limited use of e-mail for personal reasons, provided it doesn’t interfere with state business or security.

Federal e-mail addresses, particularly military, topped the list of most common addresses.

Kentucky shows up as having the largest number of state employee addresses, with 73. Michigan appears to be next with 21, although not all states use a similar address for all state employees.