You thought the exposure of adulterous website Ashley Madison was over? There’s a new revelation out. Apparently, most Ashley Madison customers had one thing in common.
Most Ashley Madison accounts were owned by men. Of the 36+ million users, 31 million were men and only 5.5 million were women. This would make competition so unbalanced that to normal human beings, it wouldn’t even be worth joining. But wait…there’s more! It turns out many of the profiles were fake. One former Ashley Madison employee claims she was told to make over 1,000 fake profiles. She worked so hard to make so many fake profiles she eventually sued her employer for physical and mental stress. Her case was settled out of court. Researchers study IP addresses. An IP address of 127.0.0.1 is known as a loopback or ‘home’ IP address. So accounts that have the 127.0.0.1 are likely to have the ‘home’ Ashley Madison address, or were made at their headquarters. Up to 82% of women accounts were traced to the ‘home’ IP address. There were other discrepancies. Of the people checking Ashley Madison updates, over 20,200,000 were men and only 1,492 were women. Of people who even using the chat system, over 11,000,000 were men and only 2,409 were women. If fact, it’s believed that of the 5.5 million female Ashley Madison accounts, only 12,000 were real!
If these statistics are right, then not only is competition extremely intense to get married women, it’s pretty much nonexistent. They’re selling a fantasy that most men will never have through their website, and the site makers know it! They’re even exploiting their own workers to make sure of it. When I first read hacking group Impact Team’s side of the story, I thought they were crusading against the moral acts of adultery and the family and social ramifications of it. But now it’s their fraudulent practices that are upsetting me, and probably upset Impact Team, which is even worse. Should Ashley Madison be shut down altogether?