Hacking Scandal Doesn’t Stop Four Million New Members for Ashley Madison

Despite the infamous hack that exposed millions of cheaters online, infidelity dating site Ashley Madison says its ranks are growing. When the site was hacked, the members associated with the site were 39 million. However, the hacking scandal revealed that Ashley Madison failed to protect its member’s information.

More than 43.4m people have signed up to the company, according to its website, up from around 37m – including 1.2m Britons – at the time of the cyber attack in August. Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, declined comment.

But all along, Avid has been downplaying the fallout from the hack, saying reports of its imminent demise, as CNN put it, were “greatly exaggerated” and that cheaters continued to use the site more than ever.

One of the many issues plaguing Ashley Madison is their account deletion policy.

The new number has not been confirmed.

The hack was bad enough, but the information revealed as part of the breach was pretty damning for the company. However, the figures were denied by the company, which said that media has misinterpreted the leaked data. In that statement, Ashley Madison had also said that “last week alone, women sent more than 2.8 million messages within our platform;” and added: “These numbers are the main reason that Ashley Madison is the number one service for people seeking discreet relationships”. It seems that this high profile hack was a fine piece of advertising for the website.

Avid Life Media tried to downplay the speculation in its August statement. Ashley Madison, which faces several class-action lawsuits related to the breach, has tightened security on the site since the incident.

Ousted Avid Life CEO Noel Biderman is due to appear on Chelsea Handler’s upcoming Netflix documentary “Chelsea Does”, which is set to debut on January 23.