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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/19/ashley-madison-hack-... mentions an estimate of 273,000.

That's about 1% of 30 million, or about 0.1/day, or 3 weeks for those 2 suicides. I bet any deviation from the average isn't statistically significant (in fact, for 2 suicides, ¿almost? no 'background' suicide level will be statistically significant)

On the other hand, I do expect that Canadian police didn't base their claim on nothing. Chances are they found suicide notes, or something similar.

”didn’t base their claim on nothing”

Actually, they didn’t claim anything, and only talked about unconfirmed reports (https://twitter.com/TorontoPolice/status/635816932474814464, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ashley-madison-hack-2-...)

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