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Type of site | Online dating service Social network service |
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| Available in | Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (European, American), Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian |
| Founder(s) | Darren Morgenstern |
| Key people | 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 |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Users | 60 million (as of February 2019[update])[1] |
| Launched | January 21, 2002[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]
Ashley Madison has been criticised for being a "business built on the back of broken hearts", and use of guerrilla marketing for advertising.[4] The company 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. The breach also revealed that the company exaggerated the size of its userbase by "creating fake accounts, or not stopping others from creating fake accounts".[5][6]
- ^ Dodgson, Lindsay. "Ashley Madison now has 60 million users. Two men told us why they use it". Insider. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
- ^ a b Daum, 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.