From PC Mag: Any publicity is good publicity, at least for cheating site Ashley Madison.
The service has gained "hundreds of thousands" of new users in the weeks since a very public breach and dump of user data, according to parent company Avid Life Media (ALM).
"Despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing," ALM said in a statement. "This past week alone, hundreds of thousands of new users signed up for the Ashley Madison platform—including 87,596 women."
The number of women on the site has been a controversial issue. The group that claims to be behind the hack, The Impact Team, said it went after Ashley Madison in part because the site is a scam and has far fewer female members than it claims. A Gizmodo investigation corroborated that and found that only 12,000 of the 5.5 million female profiles on the adultery site belonged to living, breathing women. About 10,000 accounts were linked to email addresses ending in ashleymadison.com, indicating that site admins actually created them.
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