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More than 38,000 Brummies who have cheated on their partners are enduring sleepless nights following revelations that an adultery website has been hacked.

That’s the number of locals “playing away from home” who signed-up to extra-marital site AshleyMadison.com, which boasts: ‘Life is short. Have an affair.’

The site is at the centre of a storm after hackers “Impact Team” have threatened to publish names, credit card details and ‘secret sexual fantasies’ of all members.

It is feared the cyber criminals intend to sell the info to the highest bidder.

The news will be particularly unwelcome in Hall Green, which heads the league table of Birmingham two-timers who have turned to AshleyMadison.

A staggering 18.2 per cent of the 38,000 signed up to use the site in the region come from that postcode, AshleyMadison revealed last year.

Edgbaston was second placed in 13.5, with Erdington close behind on 11.2.

At the time, AshleyMadison spokesman Christopher Kraemer said: “The Birmingham data is consistent with what we’ve seen in other cities.

“Affluence is a common element found in most cities’ top ten lists while the proclivity to cheat often goes hand-in-hand with opportunity.

“Those with more disposable income and freedom to travel are even more likely to stray.”

As many as 1.2 million Brits are members of the salacious dating network which “guarantees” people seeking to cheat on their partners will “find someone”.

It boasts 37 million members around the world.

Bosses, who have been accused of running a business dedicated to ruining marriages, have claimed that the theft of data was an inside job carried out with the help of an employee.

The Impact Team issued an ultimatum to Canadian owner’s Avid Life Media (ALM) warning unless Ashley Madison close down the website, its 37 million users most intimate details, including names, ages, addresses, credit card information and sexual fantasies will be published.

To highlight their intentions, the hackers posted a small sample of member details.

The group are also demanding Ashley Madison’s sister site, Established Men, is taken down.

In a statement The Impact Team said: “Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.”

A company spokesman said: “Following the earlier unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our system, Avid Life Media immediately engaged one of the world’s top IT security teams to take every possible step toward mitigating the attack.

“Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), our team has now successfully removed the posts related to this incident as well as all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about our users published online.”