Ashley Madison Adds 4 Million Users Since Hack

They say no publicity is bad publicity, and that might just be true for Ashley Madison.

Because even a massive data breach that exposed millions of unfaithful spouses apparently tin't keep the site downwards. Turns out, the infamous adultery site has gained some four million members since the very public breach and dump of user information.

At the time of the breach this August, Ashley Madison claimed to have around 39 1000000 users. At present, a counter on the Ashley Madison homepage shows that the site has more than than 43 one thousand thousand members.

Ashley Madison parent company Gorging Life Media declined to comment virtually the user uptick when contacted by PCMag.com on Tuesday. Just weeks after the breach, however, Avid Life Media said people were still signing up for the site in droves.

"Despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing," ALM said in a argument at the fourth dimension, adding that "hundreds of thousands of new users" signed up for the site during the last calendar week of Baronial alone, including 87,596 women.

Meanwhile, in case you somehow missed one if the biggest tech stories of 2022, hither's the brusk version of what happened: online vigilantes this summer hacked into the Ashley Madison site, stole its user database, posted it online, and made it easily searchable. The group that claimed responsibility for the hack, The Impact Squad, said information technology went after Ashley Madison in part because the site is a scam and has far fewer female person members than it claims. The fallout from the breach included an ousted CEO, well-nigh a dozen lawsuits, broken marriages, and a major PR crisis for the Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting.

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