The recent airing of Ashley Madison's dirty laundry continues to be a hot topic around the internet.
Two weeks ago, a group of hackers calling themselves 'Team Impact', breached the security of the controversial dating website and made away with the information of millions of users.
Many outlets have combed through the near 10 gigabytes of data dumped by Team Impact onto the dark web, but this find from Gizmodo stands out.
The data they dug up reveals that: for a website that marketed itself as the internets' go to source for adulterous relationships, Ashley Madison was actually a terrible place to look for an affair.
Gizmodo says that the company had a little over 70,000 computer 'bots' posing as female users who would send automated messages to their real life male counterparts in the hopes of playing up the site's image as a haven for illicit relationships. …show more content…
The code tells the story of a company trying to weave the illusion that women on the site are plentiful and eager.' Says Gizmodo's Annalee
Two weeks ago, a group of hackers calling themselves 'Team Impact', breached the security of the controversial dating website and made away with the information of millions of users.
Many outlets have combed through the near 10 gigabytes of data dumped by Team Impact onto the dark web, but this find from Gizmodo stands out.
The data they dug up reveals that: for a website that marketed itself as the internets' go to source for adulterous relationships, Ashley Madison was actually a terrible place to look for an affair.
Gizmodo says that the company had a little over 70,000 computer 'bots' posing as female users who would send automated messages to their real life male counterparts in the hopes of playing up the site's image as a haven for illicit relationships. …show more content…
The code tells the story of a company trying to weave the illusion that women on the site are plentiful and eager.' Says Gizmodo's Annalee