Ashley Madison: ‘Hundred of thousands’ still signing up to hacked cheating website

The Ashley Madison parent company claims the cheating website is still growing, despite the hack

CHEATING website Ashley Madison has hit back at reports that people are flocking from the online service.

The parent company of the Ashley Madison service – which boasts the tagline “Life is short. Have an affair” – claims "hundreds of thousands" of new users have signed up to the online service.
The names, adulterous sexual fantasies, credit card information and naked photos of some 37 million Ashley Madison users, including 1.2 million Britons, were leaked online earlier this month.
But parent firm Avid Life Media claims reports that the hack caused a drop in the number of users on the cheating website “are greatly exaggerated.”

Former Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman, who helped create and run Ashley Madison, Cougar Life and

The company said in a written statement: "Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated.
"Despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing."
Avid Life Media claims “hundreds of thousands of new users signed up" to the dating platform within the past week alone, including 87,596 women.
Women reportedly sent some 2.8million messages on the platform within the same seven days.

According to a report in the Washington Post, the vast majority of the users on the website – are men.

Despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing

Avid Life Media, Ashley Madison parent firm

Of more than 35 million profiles released online after the hack, only some five million actually belong to women, the article discovered.
Avid Life Media today insisted that in the first half of the year – the ratio of men to women using the website was between 1.2 to 1.
The problem with analysing the leaked data for information on the user base, the firm said, is that many female users do not have payment information associated with the site, since they are "not required to pay to communicate with men.”

As a result, when looking through the leaked payment information, it appears as if the male users greatly outnumber the females.
Ashley Madison has been hit with a number of lawsuits, said to be worth in excess of £375 million, since its private information leaked online.
Email addresses of employees of the British, US and European governments also appeared in the leaked data.
Avid Life Media is offering a $500,000 reward for information on the perpetrators of the hack.