John McAfee表现，此前并没有黑客集团声称为本身的行为卖力，因为黑客构造根本不存在。

  他接着指出是从 Dark Web外部网络这一可靠信息的。他认为黑客对Ashley Madison的技术十分相识，凭据曝光的数据阐发，很多都是外部员工才能打仗到的资料。

  他也从黑客的用词风俗中发明应该是女性所为。

  In the first manifesto two names of male members were released. In describing one of them the perpetrator states the he "spitefully" joined Ashley Madison the day after Valentine's Day. Anyone who ever had a significant other knows that women rate Valentine's Day higher than Christmas, and men think so little of it that they have to remind each other the day is nearing. To call an act the day after Valentines Day "spiteful", is a thought that would enter few men's minds. If this does not convince you then you need to get out of the house more often.