The shocking revelation will leave more than a million Illicit Encounters members fearing the worst.
Last year US married dating site Ashley Madison hit the headlines after its online security was breached.
Several suicides and scores of divorces were linked to the hacking after 33 million members' personal information was leaked online for the world to see.
Now Illicit Encounters chief executive Simon Francis has admitted to Daily Star Online that no one is completely safe.
Far from the wake-up call some expected, the data breach that aired the personal dealings and financial information of Ashley Madison clients has yet to spur concrete changes in web security or the online dating industry.
The details were published online by hackers calling themselves The Impact Team, who stole the data and threatened to make it public unless Ashley Madison was taken down. They said they had acted because they claimed the company had failed to delete the details of users who had paid to have their profiles erased.
The hackers' online message with the leak
Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, subsequently shelved plans to float on the London Stock Exchange, whilea class action lawsuit has already been launched in the US, seeking more than £3m in damages.
There have also been claims that the vast majority of Ashley Madison subscribers are men, and many of the female profiles on the site were created by staff.
In 2013 an employee at Ashley Madison’s headquarters in Toronto claimed that after being hired to help launch a Portuguese language version of the site she was ordered to create 1,000 fake female profiles to reel in men who wanted to have affairs.
Ashley Madison has denied creating fake female accounts.
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