Ashley Madison's terms and conditions told users it ran fake accounts

Hacked extramarital dating service ran fake accounts but protected itself legally by admitting to it in the terms of service

The terms of service of hacked extramarital dating service Ashley Madison allow the company to run fake accounts, protecting it from at least some user lawsuits in the wake of its massive data breach in August.

The company had previously denied allegations of a "fembot army", but according to information in the data dump, it actually ran tens of thousands of fake female accounts to send millions of messages to users.