One month after the adultery-enabling website "Ashley Madison" was hacked, its members worst nightmares were revealed when the Impact Team made good on their promise and released all the data that they have stolen.

The hacking of "Ashley Madison" was groundbreaking in numerous ways. One, the amount of information the group stole was virtually unheard of. The site had more than 33 million members and each one had their personal information and credit card data stolen.

Second, the group that carried out the hack, the Impact Team, said that their goal was to expose what they deemed as "cheating dirt bags." Their demand was also different, for "Ashley Madison's" parent company "Avid Life Media" to shut down the site and its sister site "Established Men," not just because of the sites' questionable morals but also because it charges people a fee to carry out a full delete of the user's account when in fact ALM retains the information.

According to Wired, a data dump that was 9.7 gigabytes large was posted to the dark web using an Onion address. While it would take time to really sift through the information, it appears that the hackers did make good on their threat and had uploaded the names, email addresses, home addresses and even the sexual proclivities of "Ashley Madison's" user base.

An early analysis of the dumped data based on the email addresses revealed that about 15,000 accounts were members of the U.S. military or were U.S. federal employees and 273,320 email addresses indicated it's registered to a Canada-based domain, with 163 accounts belonging to the Canadian military. There were also 92 U.K Ministry of Defense email addresses in the mix as well as 1,716 accounts from universities and colleges in Britain.

"Ashley Madison" apparently doesn't verify the email account being listed by those who created accounts on the site, resulting in email addresses of known figures to be hijacked. Barack.Obama@whitehouse.org was one of the email addresses found on the site. People also found Scottish MP Michelle Thomson's name among the hacked accounts. Thomson has since released a statement saying that it wasn't her and that her email had been appropriated by a stranger.

Now that the data is out there, millions of "Ashley Madison" members are undoubtedly worrying right now. But what are the ramifications of the Impact Team's decision to upload the data?

Divorce is one sure thing that will come out of this debacle. One prominent U.S. divorce lawyer even said that the release of the Ashley Madison data is the best thing that has happened to his profession. There's also that breach in security; with the phone numbers, addresses and other very personal information of millions of people exposed, it's only a matter of time before identity thieves and blackmailers go to work. There's also the morbid reality that some people might actually take their own lives or be killed over this.