Hackers reportedly release Ashley Madison users' personal data online

On Tuesday, hackers identified as the Impact Team claimed to release the private information of nearly 40 million users of cheating site Ashley Madison.

News of the breach made national headlines in July after the group told Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, to shut down that site, as well as the sugar-daddy site Established Men, or risk having personal information released, Reuters reported. 

Impact Team's nearly 10GB data dump Tuesday reportedly includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, descriptions of what users are looking for, and credit card information.

Now, if you're like us, you might think divorce lawyers are about to have a field day with this leak. 

\"If there are laws in the state about committing adultery and that being a basis for divorce, I would imagine this would fall right into this caveat,\" divorce attoey Michael Beyda told CNN.

But CNN's guest explained the U.S. has no-fault divorces and fault divorces, and information from the leak is only useful for the latter — and only if the accusing party could prove their spouse cheated. 

The released data doesn't prove that married users on the site actually went through with an affair. Still, adultery isn't the only grounds for divorce, and information from the website could help spouses prove marital misconduct in other ways. (Video via Ashley Madison) 

Another attoey tells CNBC, in many courts, extra-marital affairs only matter if a person has spent money shared between spouses on non-marriage activities. She says, \"The $19 fee that the spouse spent on the 'Full Delete' service for the Ashley Madison site will be considered marital waste (as would any other monies spent on the site and the monies spent on the hotels, etc.) and that would be a credit back to the marital pot.\"

But $19 hardly sounds worth the hassle when just filing for divorce could cost hundreds of dollars. Ashley Madison said in a statement Tuesday, \"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.\"