Remember the Ashley
Madison Hack reported by a group calling themselves the Impact Team on
Monday July 20th 2015 as reported in the article “Hackers
of cheaters' site Ashley Madison threaten to expose user profiles”,
published July 20, 2015 by Luke Westway, CNET
News?
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Despite committing a crime, the hackers may soon be
vindicated thanks to a recent revelation; Ashley
Madison, which is owned by Avid Life Media, was filled with Robots as
reported in the article entitled “Report:
Yep, Ashley Madison is full of Fembots”, published 26 August 2015 by Lauren
Hockenson, The Next Web.
From the very start, the hackers, who called themselves
Impact Team had accused Ashley
Madison of fraud. They claimed that some 90% to 95% of the female users are
really robots. In response, Ashley
Madison has place a statement online via their Twitter account.
New
Statement from Avid Life Media Inc: http://t.co/9iGwRzf90y
—
Ashley Madison (@ashleymadison) August
19, 2015
This accusation didn't surprise me initially, as I’ve long
known based on the stats from Analyst Incapsula that at least 61% of the
traffic online is from Bots as explained in my Geezam
blog article entitled “61%
of all Traffic on the Internet is generated by bots”.
Albeit you might doubt the word of a hacker, it's good to
note that back in 2013, Ashley
Madison had been sued by a former employee Doriana Silva for US$20 million
for injury incurred after being forced to create fake female profiles as
reported in the article “Woman
hurt typing fake profiles for dating site, $20M suit alleges”, published
NOV 10, 2013 by News Staff, City News.
Armed with this known history, the team at Gizmodo began
digging through the data as reported in the article “Almost
None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site”,
published 8/26/15 by Annalee Newitz, Gizmodo.
What they discovered was very shocking; Ashley
Madison was still up to their old tricks and Impact Team was right. Almost
90% of the females within the websites were fake accounts, possibly run by
robots.
Ashley Madison’s
Fembots - How the lack of activity and Loopback addresses indicate nobody was
home
From Gizmodo's parsing of the users demographics based on
the data dumped on the Darkweb, the gender imbalance became glaringly obvious:
1.
37 million registered users
2.
31.5 million male accounts
3.
5.5 million female accounts
To make it worse, those 5.5 million female accounts showed
0% activity the day after they were created. After all, if they were seeking
men they'd be actively updating their accounts to make themselves more
attractively to potential males.
This lack of activity implies robots, as robots need input
via conversation online to respond, being as they're not sophisticated enough
to hold a conversation on their own.
Inbox activity, which is free on Ashley
Madison, brought home this fact more clearly:
1.
20 million men checked their Ashley
Madison message inbox
2.
1,492 women checked their Ashley
Madison message inbox
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To chat online in Ashley
Madison, you need to purchase a 100 credit pack for US$49. Surprisingly the
numbers were a little better but the imbalance was glaring:
1.
11 million men used this chat system to communicate
with someone
2.
2,409 women used this chat system to communicate with
someone
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Deleted accounts, a service which attracted a fee of US$19,
didn't actually delete anything; Impact Team still managed to retrieve
so-called deleted accounts. Again the gender disparity persisted:
1.
173,000 of deleted accounts were men
2.
12,108 of deleted accounts were men
But the biggest clue, almost a smoking gun, was the IP
(Internet Protocol) addresses of the persons who logged in on Ashley
Madison. Almost all of the females on the website had an IP Address that
matched Ashley
Madison's Home or Loopback address of 127.0.0.0, indicating that they were
all logging in from a computer inside of Ashley
Madison.
The numbers again are telling:
1.
68,709 of the profiles created with 127.0.0.0 Loopback
IP address were female
2.
12,000 of the profiles created with 127.0.0.0 Loopback
IP address were male or unidentified
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So basically, there were more males than females cheating,
which I could have predicted based on my experience with females at the
all-females MICO University College.
I’d also predicted this would happen as online Bots are now
sophisticated enough to pass the Turing Test as noted in my blog article
entitled “Russian
and Ukranian Research Team beat Turing Test - How to spot a chatbot online as
Eugene Goostman win suggests Turing Test for Natural Language”.
5.5 million Fembot accounts sounds just about right.
Ashley Madison
website Hackers Impact Team justified - How married Humans may be scammed by AI
in the future
Good to note here that the hackers broke in and stole
logins, passwords, usernames and partial credit card data for cheating married
men and women as explained in “What to know about
the Ashley Madison hack”, published AUGUST 26, 2015 by Robert Hackett, Fortune.
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By Wednesday August 19th 2015, Ashley
Madison admitted that the breach had indeed occurred and that the hackers
had posted data online in the Darkweb as reported in the article “Adultery
site Ashley Madison confirms leak of actual user data”, published August
19, 2015 by Lance Whitney, CNET News.
Typical of hackers, their motives weren't terribly clear, as
hackers often change the reasoning behind what they to do to justify what's
effectively a crime as noted in the article “Wreaking
havoc: Ashley Madison breach shows hackers' shifting motives”, published
August 21, 2015 by Laura Hautala, CNET News.
But when two (2) Canadian men in Toronto, Canada committed
suicide by Monday August 24th 2015, a bounty was quickly place on
the heads of the alledged members of Impact Team in hopes that their bragging
would result in friend ratting out on them as reported in the article “Ashley
Madison puts $377,000 bounty on hackers' heads”, published August 24, 2015
by Laura Hautala, CNET News.
Now that we known that the accounts were mostly fake
accounts, it seems the actions of Impact Team were justified; Ashley
Madison was nothing more than a Scam with Fembot Accounts that was milking
men of their money.
Something tells me that Bounty will be ignored, as the
hackers motive may actually be that they are disgruntled former users of Ashley
Madison who realized that they were being duped and decided to expose the
company Ashley
Madison, which is owned by Avid Life Media.
For me personally, Females cheating on their husbands was
the first clue, as women don't cheat via websites being as they're not that tech savvy; they usually have a female friend set them up, based on my experience
from MICO University College.
Still, an interesting hack, as it now turns out that the
real criminals were Ashley
Madison. Also, sexbots are in our future, Humans style!
Ashley Madison
Twitter Feed: @ashleymadison
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