Hackers stole confidential data from the cheating website AshleyMadison.com and said that "nobody was watching" as they searched the adultery internet site, reported Motherboard, an online technology site.

According to the technology website, it was provide a contact email address for the hackers, dubbed the Impact team. The hackers responded through a message having the same fingerprint as well as signature ? a PGP key along with the cheating website's releases in this week.

The website quoted the hacking group "We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything. Nobody was watching. No security."

The hackers said "We have explained the fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM [Ashley Madison's parent company Avid Life Media] and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data".

The hacking group threatened to publish nude pictures, names as well as sexual fancies of customers unless the websites Ashley Madison and Established Men had been taken down.

According to cyber security experts, Tuesday's release contained customer details covering British civil servants, high-level executives at North American and European corporations and also American government officials.