By Brad Reed From BGR

Ashley Madison is claiming that millions of real women regularly use its website to help them have affairs. But if that’s the case, why do so many of the website’s robo-users disproportionately send messages to male users? Gizmodo’s Annalee Newitz has done some more detective work on the leaked Ashley Madison data and has discovered that the website has had its bots send more than 20 million messages to men while sending less than 2,000 such robo-messages to women. Meanwhile, Ashley Madison’s bots engaged in instant message chats with men more than 11 million times and chatted with women on the site just 2,400 times.

“The dramatic discrepancy between men and women is entirely because Ashley Madison’s software developers trained their bots to talk almost exclusively to men,” she writes. “Out of 70,572 [bot users], 70,529 were female and only 43 were male. So we can say for sure that roughly zero percent of bots on Ashley Madison are male. The bots also tended to have ashleymadison.com email addresses, though other popular addresses included things like [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. And finally, tens of thousands of the bots had IP addresses that suggested the accounts had been made by people working at the Ashley Madison office.”

We first learned of the Ashley Madison hack in July when a group calling itself the Impact Team threatened to release personal information on the website’s users unless it shut down its operations. Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life called the hackers’ bluff and now it’s paying a very steep price as both user data, website source codes and internal company emails have all been spilled onto the web.

To read the rest of Newitz’s analysis of Ashley Madison’s sneaky use of fembots, click here: http://gizmodo.com/ashley-madison-code-shows-more-women-and-more-bots-1727613924

For more on this story go to: http://bgr.com/2015/09/01/ashley-madison-hack-robot-users/

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Ex-Ashley Madison spokesmodel drops bombshell allegations against cheating website

By Brad Reed From BGR

We’ve seen a lot of reporting on the Ashley Madison hack lately that suggests the vast majority of female profiles on the website are completely fake. Now Inside Edition has scored an interview with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, who was paid to be Ashley Madison’s spokesmodel back in 2010 and who is now tossing bombshell allegations against the website charging that it’s run by “scam artists.”

McGee created a profile for Ashley Madison as part of her deal to represent the company in 2010. McGee, for those of you who don’t follow celebrity gossip, gained notoriety for having an affair with Jesse James while he was married to Sandra Bullock. Because of this infamous deed, McGee seemed like the perfect person to represent a website dedicated to helping people cheat on their spouses.

After McGee created her profile, she basically never logged into it again. However, that didn’t stop her profile from contacting and flirting with other people who had signed up for the website.

“I feel like they used my profile to lure people,” she tells Inside Edition. “I think there are actually women on there but the real women are scam artists or porn girls looking to generate more income to the website. But almost of them are fake profiles that Ashley Madison posted so they can maintain control.”

She also says that any women who find their husbands have Ashley Madison accounts shouldn’t worry since the chances of them actually having a successful affair through the website are close to zero.

Check out McGee’s full interview with Inside Edition here: http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/11726-ex-ashley-madison-spokesmodel-bombshell-mcgee-slams-website-theyre-scam-artists

IMAGE: Ashley Madison Hack Spokesmodel Allegations

For more on this story go to: http://bgr.com/2015/09/01/ashley-madison-hack-spokesmodel-allegations/

See also iNews Cayman related story published August 31 2015 “Could the Ashley Madison hack have been an inside job?” at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/could-the-ashley-madison-hack-have-been-an-inside-job/