Ashley Madison claims site has plenty of female users eager to cheat

Representatives from the site dispute claims that only 1,492 women have ever checked their messages and most of its female users are fake 'angel' bots

There were lots of women looking to cheat on their partners on our site, honest, representatives of hacked infidelity service Ashley Madison claimed on Monday.

The latest - unattributed - statement from the Canadian company came after Annalee Newitz, a writer for several Gawker Media websites including Gizmodo, studied the hacked database for indications that the site's purported 5.5 million female users had arranged trysts using the service. She found that "only 1,492 women had ever checked their messages" according to the stolen information, though she allowed for the possibility that the data might have been corrupted.