A Baptist pastor is reported to have committed suicide after allegedly outed as having an account in the cheating website, Ashley Madison. According to People.com, John Gibson, 56 years old, was a professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He was discovered dead by his wife barely a week after hackers of the adultery website exposed the names of millions of its members. His wife, Christi Gibson, said that she also found a suicide note that detailed his depression and his remorse for using Ashley Madison.
In an interview, Mrs. Gibson told CNN Money, "He talked about having his name on there, and he said he was just very, very sorry."
"It wasn't so bad that we wouldn't have forgiven it, and so many people have said that to us, but for John, it carried such a shame," she added. She also noted that she believed her husband would lose his job.
Furthermore, according to CNN Money, authorities in Toronto have said that there have been other suicide cases that maybe linked to the hack and they are investigating on it. Ashley Madison was hacked in July and the hackers dumped the stolen personal information of the more than 30 million users, including Gibson, on the Internet in August.
The Spokesperson of the Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, expressed its condolences in behalf on the company in a statement.
"Dr. Gibson's passing is a stark, heart-wrenching reminder that the criminal hack against our company and our customers has had very real consequences for a great many innocent people."
Meanwhile, Christi Gibson has a message to the rest of the 32 million users who have been exposed and their communities. "These were real people with real families, real pain and real loss," she says. But "don't underestimate the power of love. Nothing is worth the loss of a father and a husband and a friend. It just didn't merit it. It didn't merit it at all."
