TENS of millions of cheaters throughout the world are very nervous right now.

This after hackers have revealed intimate details of over 30 million users of the website Ashley Madison, which helps people cheat.

The website’s slogan is “Life is short. Have an Affair”.

There have been conflicting reports on how many of the site’s members are from Mzansi.

Ashley Madison has claimed that it has over 205 000 South African members, but The Times reported that an analysis of the leaked information shows 70 816 credit card transactions from South Africa.

According to the report, 615 of those transactions were made with government email addresses.

The 172 Eskom email addresses may explain why they have so much trouble keeping the lights on. Or maybe they are keeping us in the dark on purpose, to make it easier to poke in secret?

The 65 email addresses belonging to Justice Department workers make me think that we need to do a better job of screening candidates for such key positions.

Before you read any further, I want you to grab your phone, tablet or laptop, or whatever you use to get on the Internet, and go to this address: http://www.trustify.info/ to check.

If you’ve been using Ashley Madison to help you in your cheating ways, that site will reveal if your email address and information have been leaked.

And if you suspect your partner has been unfaithful, you can enter their email address and find out if they’re a member of Ashley Madison or another cheating site, Adult Friend Finder.

Well, I hope that went well and that you didn’t discover that your partner’s been cheating on you.

If you’re a cheater who’s now been exposed, well, you only have yourself to blame.

What were you thinking?

Technology may have made it easier than ever to cheat, but it’s also made it easier than ever to be caught.

Face it, there’s nothing you can do online that isn’t at risk of bein gexposed sooner or later.

This is a good thing, actually, because it will eventually force us to be more honest.

I love my privacy, but the days of privacy are over. We may as well focus on the good things that may result from that.

But let’s get back to the topic of cheating.

You just need to take a look at the “Keep it? Or Kick It?” column in this very newspaper to see what a huge problem it is.

It is also, of course, a problem as old as time itself, mentioned in the Bible and ancient law codes.

What I don’t understand is why it’s still so common today. I can understand why there was a lot of cheating in the old days. Back then marriages were often arranged, or were business transactions.

Even more recently, before reliable contraception was invented and before women started working, getting married was something people did out of necessity, not out of any real desire to spend their lives with someone and be faithful to them.

If none of the above was a good enough reason, there was also always family and social pressure.

Today, though, a lot of this has changed. Nothing really forces anyone to get married.

This is why I don’t understand people who get married and then go off and poke every Ben 10, sugar daddy or nyatsi they can get their hands on. If you want to be a player, just be a player (good luck with all the sexually transmitted diseases).

Don’t marry someone or tell someone you are faithful to them when you have no intention of being.

You’re just hurting someone else for no reason at all.) Do you think cheating can ever be excused? Let me know what you think by sending an email to [email protected].

Until next week, salani kahle!

This article first appeared in the Sunday Sun.