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Posted on April 15, 2016 April 15, 2016

Why more women are letting their husbands cheat

https://theridgewoodblog.net/ridgewood-and-ashleymadison/

By Jane Ridley

April 14, 2016 | 3:59am

Thrashing out the details of their new marriage contract with online relationship coach Suzie Johnson, the wealthy couple who have been wed for 12 years leave their hourlong Skype session feeling satisfied.

The husband agrees they can have a fifth child — while the wife consents to an infidelity clause allowing him to cheat with other women on a strictly annual basis.

“They agreed to a weekend amnesty, where the guy can do what he wants for just one weekend a year,” recalls Johnson, who runs the Dallas, Texas-basedgoasksuzie.com. “In return, she gets the bigger family she craved.”

According to Johnson, such arrangements are increasingly common in her practice as a growing number of women agree to “widen their monogamy boundaries” and embrace a marriage of convenience, where it’s just the husband who strays rather than an open marriage where both sides cheat.

https://nypost.com/2016/04/14/why-more-women-are-letting-their-husbands-cheat/

Posted on December 29, 2015 December 28, 2015

Ashley Madison says it added 4 million members since the hack

by David Goldman @DavidGoldmanCNNDecember 28, 2015: 12:43 PM ET

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.

What’s behind the apparent customer growth? A spokesman for Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life Media isn’t saying. He said the website had no update to provide since its last statement on August 31, and it would not comment for this report.

In its last public statement, Avid Life said that reports of its imminent demise were “greatly exaggerated,” and cheaters continued to use the site more than ever — even though 32 million of its members’ identities were revealed in the massive data breach this summer.

The hack was bad enough, but the information revealed as part of the breach was pretty damning for the company. The list of names appeared to show that upwards of 95% of Ashley Madison’s members were men.

The company denied that, saying that journalists were misreading the exposed information. Instead, Ashley Madison said that the ratio of men to women who “actively used their account” was 1.2 to 1.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/28/technology/ashley-madison-new-members/index.html

Posted on October 1, 2015 September 30, 2015

How 40,000 ‘women’ on Ashley Madison shared just six email addresses – all of them owned by the affairs website itself

A data scientist has figures he claims show the site generated fake profiles
Jeremy Bullock, says the fake users, known Ashley Angels, were used on a huge scale
They even started chats to create the illusion they wanted a relationship
But these messages were found to be generic and computer-generated
Up to 80 per cent of new members spoke with people who didn’t exist, according to Bullock
Graphs show that the ‘engager’ profiles doubled monthly revenue
Ashley Madison has constantly denied it set up these automated users

By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 08:06 EST, 29 September 2015 | UPDATED: 15:30 EST, 29 September 2015

A data scientist has uncovered what he says is proof that Ashley Madison created tens of thousands of fake accounts to dupe members into paying for its services, in a scheme that would have almost doubled the website’s revenue.

According to statistics seen by Daily Mail Online, 40,000 profiles were set up on the affair site using just six email addresses owned by the website’s operators on two separate days.

It follows claims in previous reports that the extra-marital dating network tried to hide around 100,000 of these so-called ‘engager’ profiles – sometimes referred to as Ashley Angels – from users, so they believed they were talking to real people.

If true, this means the real number of ‘available’ women was drastically reduced, while the website’s monthly revenue was almost doubled by the ‘engagers’, as members have to pay to read their online messages.

Posted on August 30, 2015 August 29, 2015

Trial lawyers circle Ashley Madison

By Katie Bo Williams – 08/29/15 11:14 AM EDT

The infidelity website Ashley Madison is fighting for survival after a hack that exposed the personal information of up to 37 million people.

Class-action lawsuits are flooding the parent company of the website, with people seeking millions of dollars in damages for having been revealed to the world as having sought extra-marital affairs.

At least four lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed in the United States, including two in California, one in Texas and one that was filed in Missouri before the data dump.

In Canada, two leading firms have filed a $578 million class-action suit on behalf of users who were outed.

All four U.S. cases has been filed on behalf of anonymous clients and accuse Ashley Madison and its parent company, Avid Life Media, of failing to adequately protect sensitive information.

The plaintiffs argue Ashley Madison knew about its security deficiencies but did nothing to address them — an allegation that they say is supported by internal company communications also released by the hackers.

The suit filed in Los Angeles this week also accuses the company of emotional distress and violating privacy laws.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/252203-trial-lawyers-circling-ashley-madison