The recent airing of Ashley Madison's dirty laundry continues to be a hot topic around the internet.
Two weeks ago, a group of hackers calling themselves 'Team Impact', breached the security of the controversial dating website and made away with the information of millions of users.
Many outlets have combed through the near 10 gigabytes of data dumped by Team Impact onto the dark web, but this find from Gizmodo stands out.
The data they dug up reveals that: for a website that marketed itself as the internets' go to source for adulterous relationships, Ashley Madison was actually a terrible place to look for an affair.
Gizmodo says that the company had a little over 70,000 computer 'bots' posing as female users who would send automated messages to their real life male counterparts in the hopes of playing up the site's image as a haven for illicit relationships.
'What I have learned from examining the site's source code is that Ashley Madison's army of fembots appears to have been a sophisticated, deliberate, and a lucrative fraud. The code tells the story of a company trying to weave the illusion that women on the site are plentiful and eager.' Says Gizmodo's Annalee Newitz.
The website's source code, was included in another more recent release from Team Impact which weighed in at 20 gigabytes.
Newitz's findings show that bots sent messages to male users over 20 million times. Females on the other hand, received just 1,492 bot messages.
The bots weren't programmed to say much, with canned messages ranging from simple hi's and hello's to slightly more complex phrases like 'what's up?' or 'how's it going?'
There is a whole lot more interesting data to view. To see it, head over to Gizmodo.
