Ashley Madison has added 4 million new members since the massive hack that exposed tons of its users' identities

[SansVarnic]

Ashley Madison has added 4 million new members since the massive hack that exposed tons of its users' identities

by: Eugene Kim of Tech Insider.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ashley-madison-has-added-4-million-new-members-since-the-massive-hack-that-exposed-tons-of-its-users-identities/ar-BBo3ONS

 

The article is a short read.

 

According to Ashley Madison, the dating site for cheaters now has 43.4 million anonymous members, roughly 4 million more than the 39 million members it had back in August when the data breach happened.

Given Ashley Madison has been adding roughly 4 million to 5 million new users annually, the growth spurt in the past 4 months is pretty impressive.

 

It would appear that the hack attack on AM did not slow down business after all. The article or AM is not providing whether or not AM was able to repair the hack or upgrade their security precautions or if users don't care that this has happened, I would figure on both being the issue. It was predicted Am would most likely go under in 2016 because of the attack but appears this wont be the case after all, but who knows it may still die its to early to tell.

 

 

Honestly I feel bad for all these "lonely" people. I have my own opinion about such activity but that is a personal matter I'll keep to myself for now as its not relevant to this discussion.

[byalexandr]

LOL

[dragoon20005]

I am single and loney

 

but i dont use that website in my life even if i am desperate

 

[Chasem121]

Apparently there really is no such thing as bad publicity

[aneil1998]

Apparently there really is no such thing as bad publicity

Well, most people probably forgot the hack ever happened or did not pay attention to the news 

[asiancorruption]

That's 4 million new idiots

[Guest]

Mini-News: around only 7% of female users are real:

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/is-cheater-site-ashley-madison-actually-growing-by-over-a-million-users-per-month/

 

http://gizmodo.com/how-ashley-madison-hid-its-fembot-con-from-users-and-in-1728410265

[Tmt97]

I guess this proves that all publicity is good publicity.

[The_Stig]

/tinfoil hat

 

What if the leak was intentional to draw massive attention to their site and spread the word to people with questionable morals?

 

/un tinfoil hat

 

4 million users in 4 months is quite the achievement itself 

[dragoon20005]

Mini-News: around only 7% of female users are real:

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/is-cheater-site-ashley-madison-actually-growing-by-over-a-million-users-per-month/

 

http://gizmodo.com/how-ashley-madison-hid-its-fembot-con-from-users-and-in-1728410265

what worse thou

 

the guys who created the accounts on the website uses their office or work emails

 

and some are from the govt

[Guest]

what worse thou

 

the guys who created the accounts on the website uses their office or work emails

 

and some are from the govt

Well...

 

Darn.

 

Sucks to be them.... and their employers.

[dragoon20005]

Well...

 

Darn.

 

Sucks to be them.... and their employers.

I will fire anyone who uses their work email for stuff like this

 

i will not want emails accounts compromise my network and my office systems

 

if they are dumb enough to use the SAME password as their work email!!!

[VagabondWraith]

Its time for another hack.

[MoonSpot]

4 mill eh?  Any chicks?

[Notional]

There's no such thing as bad publicity  

[spartaman64]

I am single and loney

 

but i dont use that website in my life even if i am desperate

 

 

its made for people who are already married

[SansVarnic]

its made for people who are already married

Yup pretty much encourages you to destroy your marriage.

AM should die and burn to the ground. 

[kacper]

Yup pretty much encourages you to destroy your marriage.

AM should die and burn to the ground. 

It's just a medium.

[deviant88]

LOLOL 'merica

[don_svetlio]

Mini-News: around only 7% of female users are real:

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/is-cheater-site-ashley-madison-actually-growing-by-over-a-million-users-per-month/

 

http://gizmodo.com/how-ashley-madison-hid-its-fembot-con-from-users-and-in-1728410265

Sausage fest

[LinusTech]

what worse thou

the guys who created the accounts on the website uses their office or work emails

and some are from the govt

Meh. I have an Ashley Madison account. Someone signed up my email for it when er were talking about the leak on WAN Show and because they don't require email verification for free accounts there's nothing I can do to prevent it.

I suspect many (but likely not all) of the government or business email accounts are involuntary members.

I also suspect a lot of non cheaters wanted to scope the site when they heard the news out of idle curiosity and created accounts.

We all know a Ashley Madison doesn't actually delete any user data so they are probably counting all of these..

For those reasons I don't think a boost in registered members is very meaningful..

[Godlygamer23]

We all know a Ashley Madison doesn't actually delete any user data so they are probably counting all of these..

Fair bit of an assumption, don't you think? We don't all know that.

[Centurius]

Pretty confident the majority are troll accounts.

[lightningterror]

I'm guessing most of them are bots / accounts created by AM itself.

[LAwLz]

Fair bit of an assumption, don't you think? We don't all know that.

I think Linus is referring to the fact that Ashley Madison had a paid service to get your account data deleted, but info about users who had paid for it was still in the leak. So Ashley Madison got paid to delete information, but never actually did.

I doubt they spend the time and effort deleting fake accounts when they don't even delete things they are being paid to delete.