The website, owned by Canadian business Avid Life Media, has been online since 2001 and promises to get about 40 million users, though that amount is virtually certainly inflated, considering a former worker’s claim the business paid her to create fictitious female reports to attract male customers.

But the latest dump, released now and Thursday, could end up being dangerous and more uncomfortable than its customers to Ashley Madison’s company. It seems to include an e-mail spool for Avid Life Media CEO Noel Bidman. A variant of e-mail file hackers Thursday, broadcast turned out to be corrupted and could not be opened, but they reposted a new version now, which is being downloaded by journalists. But other files released contain some 73 git repositories showing what is apparently source code for mobile property and the Ashley Madison web site. Although the content of these will be of little interest to the majority of journalists, they present a danger to what is left of ALM’s company, since other attackers are now able to examine the code for susceptibility they could utilize to manipulate and further subvert the website, which makes it difficult for ALM to ensure continuing customers that their information is safe. The launch of source code is also problematic for another reason–it exposes the intellectual property of the firm to anybody who would like to design a business that is similar. For an organization that had expected to raise $200 million for an IPO on the London Stock Exchange this autumn, that is a possibly huge strike.

But before we get in front of the headlines, let us analyze a number of the main ongoing questions about the hack as well as Ashley Madison.