British Islamist Hamza Tzortzis’s Ashley Madison Account Details

^{Originally published under the title, “Islamist Hamza Tzortzis’s Ashley Madison Full Account Details Revealed.”
For a previous report on this topic by Mr. Kassam, see “UK Islamist Leader Exposed in Ashley Madison Hack.”}

According to his Ashley Madison account, British Islamist leader Hamza Tzortzis likes to cuddle.

Breitbart London can exclusively reveal that the Ashley Madison account connected to British Islamist preacher Hamza Tzortzis was validated by the adultery-enabling website, according to raw data analysed by a senior data scientist.

Tzortzis originally took to his Facebook account this weekend to claim that the account was fraudulent, saying that he had made a complaint to his bank and the police. The Facebook post has now been removed.

Breitbart London approached data experts who have been studying the Ashley Madison database to ask questions about Mr. Tzortzis’s story, which some of his Facebook fans said stretched credulity due to the detailed nature of his account.

Now we can exclusively reveal that Mr. Tzortzis’s account listed him as an “Attached Male Seeking Female,” with sexual preferences involving cuddling, “receiving oral sex,” and “sensual massage.”

The IP address from which the Ashley Madison account was created emanated from Sydney, where Mr. Tzortzis was giving a speech.

The account was created on October 22, 2014, directly after Mr. Tzortzis’s hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, as he stated in his Facebook post. This coincided precisely with a speaking tour of Australia that Mr. Tzortzis was involved with, as advertised by his website. On October 22, he was due to speak to the Muslim Student Association of New South Wales at the University of Western Sydney. The IP address of the user that signed up for Ashley Madison came from Sydney (see left).

But the claim that Mr. Tzortzis never knew about the account has been called into question by the fact that his own working email address, listed on numerous slideshows and presentations by Mr. Tzortzis, was the one used to sign up to the service. The counterclaim from Mr. Tzortzis is that “It could have been someone who knows me, someone who hates me, or a malicious person who found out who I was.” Which is certainly possible, and there are millions of email addresses used to sign up to the service that are real and functioning, that were not those of Ashley Madison users. It is worth noting that the account was registered as an “attached male seeking a female.”

But as one commenter wrote in response,

Tzortzis’s pre-conversion to Islam name is listed on the company that has an address linked to the Ashley Madison account.

Again, this is publicly available information, and it is certainly a possibility that someone conducted a lot of research into Mr. Tzortzis, even following him to his precise location in Sydney, Australia, to set up the account. But that would also rely on the notion that whomever Mr. Tzortzis believes did this also knew that the entire Ashley Madison database would be released, just to get at him.

It is also worth noting that Mr. Tzortzis’s date of birth, September 21, 1980, was also linked to the Ashley Madison account, again linked to his company registration information.

His profile carried the nickname “AndrewT14″ – presumably a reference to his Greek name Andreas, combined with the first letter of his surname and the year (2014). It was captioned “Compassionate male seeks friendship.”

If a “malicious person,” as Mr. Tzortzis claims, set up the account, then presumably that person wouldn’t have stopped at “friendship” if he were trying to implicate him in nefarious or adulterous behaviour.

Furthermore, AndrewT14’s profile carries the abstract: “I long for a sincere friendship with the ability to connect physically and mentally. I would consider myself compassionate, and someone who thinks a lot.”

This is similar language to that which Mr. Tzortzis uses in his own biography, which reads: “Compassionately articulating a positive cogent case for Islamic thought and philosophy.” And there are three pages of search results from his website that use the word “compassion.”

Tzortzis has claimed that he didn’t notice the transactions coming from his bank account, including a startup fee of £54 and a monthly fee of £15, totalling £174 over the course of eight months’ membership. This is despite the fact that his email address, which is linked to the bank card used, was signed up for offers and updates.

Jeremy Bullock, a data specialist, explained to Breitbart London that “the member_email table of the database has a set of properties noted against it by the Ashley Madison developers.” These properties identified whether the email address was valid (it was) and whether the user had opted in for emails. Tzortzis’s account was opted in. It is unclear whether this was a default option or a manual choice by whomever started the account.

Bullock explained: “Of the 36 million [email] addresses [leaked], 12 million have the email “isvalid” flag set to 0 (invalid) and 24m set to 1 (valid).” This highlighted how Ashley Madison didn’t send out verification emails upon sign-up, but how it checked to see if email addresses were working. The fact that Mr. Tzortzis’s email was signed up to receive promotional emails also raises questions about his claim that he did not notice communications from Ashley Madison over the eight months.

The account lists the user’s sexual preferences as: Conventional Sex, Cuddling & Hugging, Extended Foreplay/Teasing, Gentleness, Kissing, Likes to Receive Oral Sex, and Sensual Massage. Again, the argument could be made that someone trying to frame Mr. Tzortzis would have chosen things slightly more embarrassing.

Breitbart London has reached out to Mr. Tzortzis for comment, but at the time of writing there has been no reply.