Ashley Madison Hackers Say 90-95 Percent Of Female Profiles Are Fake

TAMPA (CBS Tampa) – The hackers who called themselves the Impact Team seem to have followed through with their threat to post personal information about the clients of the cheating websites Ashley Madison and Established Men, reports Wired.

Ashley Madison promises discreet relations between married men and younger women. EstablishedMen.com says it connects beautiful young women with rich sugar daddies “to fulfill their lifestyle needs.”

The group warned Avid Life Media, which owns both sites, that it would leak the information unless the sites were shut down.

The company ignored the warnings, and promised customers that it had boosted its network security.

Impact Team says it released the information because of the company’s defiance.

“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” Impact Team wrote in a statement accompanying the online data dump. “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.”

The hackers also mocked the men who signed up for Ashley Madison.

“Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison (sic) fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.”

Avid Life Media condemned the release of the data.

“This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality. It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities,” the company said in a statement. “The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world.”

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