Police chief commits suicide after his official email account was leaked by Ashley Madison harcker

The death of Capt Gorhum in San Antonio, Texas, came just days after his official email address was linked to an Ashley Madison account.

Hackers released a cache of data about 37million Ashley Madison members, some of whom were using email addresses of U.S. government officials, UK civil servants, and European and North American corporations.

His was one of three San Antonio city official email addresses which were leaked as part of the Ashley Madison, the IBTimes reports.

Two of the email accounts are reportedly linked to members of the SAPD - the late Capt. Gorhum, and a detective - but Ashley Madison does not verify email addresses, so it is possible to use the site with someone else's email.

San Antonio city officials say that as a result of this, they 'cannot confirm whether these (two) addresses were legitimately used to access the site', adding that Ashley Madison is blocked on City officials' computers.

The Ashley Madison leak has already seen lawsuits filed against the company.