Despite its recent hack that exposed millions of their clients' personal information and the resignation of its chief executive, the parent company of Ashley Madison said that business is going pretty fine. In fact, it claimed that, it's "growing".
"Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated," parent company Avid Life Media said in a statement on its Ashley Madison site. It also continued by saying, "The company continues its day-to-day operations even as it deals with the theft of its private data by criminal hackers."
According to the company just this past week alone, there are hundreds of thousands of new users that signed up for the Ashley Madison adultery site. This included 87,596 women." Don't forget", the company claimed, "we're number one when it comes to real people seeking discreet encounters."
While NY Daily News reported that the chief executive, Biderman resigned after the hacking incident, the company's struggles doesn't even scared off Ashley Madison's base, Avid Life Media. The company claimed, "We have customers in nearly every zip code in the United States, as well as users in more than 50 countries around the world. The Ashley Madison app is the 14th highest grossing app1 in the USA social networking category in the Apple App Store." It also stressed that the growth of the company only shows their satisfied customers.
In July, Avid Life Media said hackers had stolen customer data from the site, which boasts more than 32 million users and says it is geared toward "real people seeking discreet encounters." Earlier this month, Daily Nation reported that a hacker group calling itself the "Impact Team" just released the stolen information from the company's servers, as well as private emails and sensitive computer source codes. The hacker group also claimed that it wanted to grab the attention to the fact that Ashley Madison was giving membership fees for clients. The group also said that instead of deleting their members personal information, the site was in fact archiving it.
Meanwhile, the company still insists that the media reports circulating were incorrect assumptions about the 32 million personal information were exposed. The adultery company also claimed that reporters were giving the attention to Avid Life instead of the criminals.
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