Steve Mindel, a lawyer based in Los Angeles, said: 'We're all saying: 'It's going to be Christmas in September. Pretty soon all of this stuff is going to surface and there's going to be a lot of filings for divorce directly as a result of this.'

Facilitating adultery

Nigel Shepherd of UK law firm Mills & Reeve was asked for advice from an unhappy wife within hours of her husband's name being listed on the leaked database listing. He said: 'If someone finds out if their partner is set up on a site which exists wholly for facilitating adultery, it's hardly surprising they are taking advice about it.' Source: Daily Mail