Paul Keable (Chief Strategy Officer) Brian Offenheim (Vice President of Creative and Design) Haze Deng (Chief Revenue Officer) George Al-Koura (Chief Information Security Officer) Srdjan Milutinovic (Chief Information Officer)
Parent
Ruby Corp.
URL
www.ashleymadison.com
Commercial
Yes
Registration
Yes
Users
60 million (as of February 2019[update])[1]
Launched
January 21, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-01-21)[2]
Current status
Active
Ashley Madison, or The Ashley Madison Agency, is a Canadian online dating service and social networking service. It was launched in 2002 and marketed to people who are married (or people in relationships) who are looking for affairs.[3] The website's slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair."[2]
The website has been widely condemned for being a "business built on the back of broken hearts",[4] and is also believed to lie about the size of its userbase by "creating fake accounts, or not stopping others from creating fake accounts".[5]
Ashley Madison gained notoriety in 2015 when it was subject to a data breach and the personal information of millions of users was released to the public.[6]
^Dodgson, Lindsay. "Ashley Madison now has 60 million users. Two men told us why they use it". Insider. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
^ abDaum, Meghan (January 10, 2009). "Ashley Madison's secret success". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 15, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
^Purkayastha, Debapratim, Qumer, S. M. and Koti, Vinodbabu (2018). "Ashley Madison Hacking and the Ethics of Hacktivism". www.icmrindia.org. Retrieved July 7, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Cameron, Scott (June 29, 2009). "The Infidelity App". NPR. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
^Schwartz, Daniel. "Ashley Madison's members by the numbers". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
^Thomsen, Simon. "Extramarital affair website Ashley Madison has been hacked and attackers are threatening to leak data online". Business Insider. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
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