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Ashley Madison owner says website still adding users after data hack

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Hundreds of thousands of people signed up for infidelity website Ashley Madison in the last week, parent company Avid Life Media said on Monday, even after hackers leaked data about millions of its clients.

A photo illustration shows the Ashley Madison website displayed on a smartphone

The company also struck back at reports that the site had few genuine female users, saying internal data released by hackers had been incorrectly analyzed.

"Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated," the company said in a statement. "Despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing."

On Aug. 18, hackers who claimed to be unhappy with Avid Life's business practices released Ashley Madison customer data. A second data dump contained thousands of emails and other company documents. Reuters has not independently verified the authenticity of the data, emails or documents.

Last week, tech blog Gizmodo published a widely cited analysis of the customer data, concluding that very few female members had ever checked the site for messages.

Avid Life said on Monday that an unnamed reporter had wrongly concluded that the number of active female members on Ashley Madison could be calculated based on assumptions about the meaning of fields contained in the leaked data.

"Last week alone, women sent more than 2.8 million messages within our platform," Avid Life said, adding that 87,596 women had also signed up for Ashley Madison last week.













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It’s all gone a bit Hong Kong.

A BOOZY expat has sparked outrage after she was filmed covered in paint and jiggling her breasts in a Hong Kong street.

Big white out . . . Alice and Emma

Alice Stirrat, 22, is seen sitting in wet road markings grunting and slurring.

Experts say her public nudity is insulting to Chinese people and could be punished with six months’ jail.

Ex-public schoolgirl Alice, also known as Stizza, moved to the former colony four months ago and works for a fashion firm. She refused to comment yesterday.

Plastered . . . boozy Alice grunts and slurs against wall

Mum Julie, 58, of Gosforth, Newcastle, held her hand to her head as The Sun showed her the video. She said: “I had no idea. It’s obviously a shock.”

Alice’s brother Andrew said it was “entirely out of character” for her.

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Thai police hunt two bombing suspects after weekend raids

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Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects after a second weekend raid on a suburban apartment block uncovered possible bomb-making materials.

Police were looking for a 26-year-old Thai woman and a foreign man in his 40s after expanding their search to a property in the city's Min Buri district. They found fertiliser, digital watches and an explosives detonator.

That came after a raid on an a decaying apartment building in the nearby Nong Chok district on Saturday, when police arrested a foreigner and seized several kinds of explosives and more than 200 passports.
Police have been looking into a possible Turkish connection in their probe and last week said they were checking arrivals from that country.


Fake Turkish passports were seized and police requested a Turkish translator to assist in questioning the suspect arrested on Saturday.
28-year-old man they arrested on Saturday in the busy Nong Chok, area, where many Thai Muslims and foreigners live.

He is charged with possessing illegal explosives. His identity and nationality are unknown.

An arrested suspect of the recent Bangkok blast is shown in this Thai Royal Police handout 

Army chief General Udomdej Sitabutr said the man was definitely involved in the shrine bombing and authorities were trying to extract information from him, but withholding some to avoid jeopardising the probe.



























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