According to research carried out by Gizmodo, only 12,000 of the female accounts on the site actually spoke to anyone. According to Annalee Newitz, the writer of the exposé, on quick observation, the site’s 31 million listed male members were competing for the attention of just 5.5 million women. A further 68,709 female accounts were created using one IP address.
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Newitz found a “disproportionate number” of fake accounts or test accounts on the site based on three specific data fields: time stamps, chat users, and message responders. While 2,409 women have ever had used the site’s chat function, in comparison to 11 million men. He recommends that people be open and vulnerable with one another in relationships. This means all those profiles were created from a computer located within the company’s headquarters.
Summonses were filed in federal court on Monday in Texas and California compelling Ashley Madison‘s parent company to respond to lawsuits filed in both districts in the wake of the breach.
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether the teachers whose district emails appear on the Ashley Madison database violated district policy.
Confirms Marblemedia co-CEO Matt Hornburg: “We are in the early stages of developing a scripted series inspired by the site which, given the events from the past week, make the themes explored more timely”.
The other thing we can probably take from this is a clear sense that men and women are very different, at least when it comes to their interest in having sex with married strangers. Fusion’s analysis suggests Ashley Madison’s growth is not anything like Facebook’s. That’s an activity rate of near 0%.
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But more alarming still is that she found a data field for each member that revealed how many members checked their Ashley Madison account inboxes and when, and only 1,492 women had ever checked theirs. Of the 80,000 such profiles, more than 80 percent were for women.
