AUSTRALIA’S most adulterous postcodes have been revealed, at least as far as Ashley Madison customers go, as internet users continue to scour data from the cheating site’s massive leak.
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Melbourne, Melton and Frankston are the hotspots in Victoria and in NSW it’s Barangaroo, Newcastle and Lavender Bay, according to location and credit card data included in the leak.
According to the leaked information, Oberon’s 2787 postcode had 69 accounts registered with Ashley Madison and Bathurst’s 2795 postcode had 1518, which is almost on par with the 1529 accounts registered in the Dubbo area (postcode 2830).
But the prize for the Central West’s most adulterous city appears to go to Orange, with the leaked data finding 1994 accounts registered to the 2800 postcode.
The analysis comes from scientists working at Fairfax Media who are analysing the leaked data, and from developer Luke Metcalfe, who works at online property search engine NationMaster.
Fairfax Media’s map draws on the locations that users entered when signing up to Ashley Madison.
People can easily insert fake addresses, but there are strong incentives to insert an address close to where you live or work as Ashley Madison goes to some lengths to pair users with other adulterers in their local area. Mr Metcalfe’s maps draw on the postcodes associated with the millions of credit card transactions from around the world made on the Ashley Madison site.
