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Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack (cnn.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-shame dept.

New submitter fardindany writes with news that the months-old Ashley Madison hack seems to have had little impact on new users joining up. CNN reports: "Despite the infamous hack that exposed millions of cheaters online, infidelity dating site Ashley Madison says its ranks are growing. At the time of the hack, Ashley Madison said it had 39 million members. The website now says it has more than 43 million members, according to a rolling count on its homepage."

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  1. Actually 4 new members.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And 3,999,996 bots.

    1. Re:Actually 4 new members.. by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would be 66 (liu shi liu) bots. Only makes sense if you speak Mandarin... ;)

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    2. Re:Actually 4 new members.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      NEW LEAK FROM ASHLEY MADISON DOT COM!!!11!!!!!!q11!!!ELEVEN!!!

      for (int i = 1; i < 3999995; i++) {
      adduser(randname(), randage(18,39), rand() < .90 ? female : male);
      }

    3. Re:Actually 4 new members.. by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, it's all there in the title:

      Ashley Madison Says _It_ Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack

  2. Obvious reason by ranton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without some really strong evidence, why would anyone believe these 4 million new members aren't 99% AI-controlled bots? Or at least 99% of the new female users.

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    1. Re:Obvious reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Or just the masses re-joining this time under assumed/fake names?

    2. Re:Obvious reason by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Why would you bother to think they are AI-controlled bots? Someone probably just wrote a script to make 4 million accounts with pre-populated data.

  3. I believe them by rasmusbr · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all, what do bots care about reputation?

  4. This is why CNN can't be trusted with the news by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> according to a rolling count on its homepage

    Has anyone NOT on SlashDot NOT written a visitor/user/customer counter that started at a fictitious number and automatically incremented as time went on? (This is, after all, the culture of "fake it until you make it.")

    1. Re:This is why CNN can't be trusted with the news by KatchooNJ · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Also, what are the odds that the counter takes account cancellations into account? Accounts that have been removed since the hack likely aren't considered for that rolling counter.

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  5. Re:Let me guess... by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the internet! Where the men are men, women are bots and kids are FBI agents.

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  6. Crossover in 2045! by swm · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US population counter gives the US population as 323M + 1 person every 13 seconds.
    Ashley Madison claims 39M users + 4M users in 4 months.
    Doing the math gives crossover in 2045, at which time everyone in the country will be on Ashley Madison.

  7. Re:The worst humanity has to offer by sjames · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's worth noting that while 50% of all marriages end in divorce, most people who get married stay married. The stat gets skewed by the fact that many who get divorced will marry and get divorced again.

  8. Re:The worst humanity has to offer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Imagine 12 men and 12 women. Eight couples get married and stay married. That's eight marriages that don't end in divorce. The other four men and four women all get married and divorced three times. That's 12 marriages that do end in divorce. Therefore the majority of marriages end in divorce (12 to 8), but the majority of people stay married (16 to 8).