Story highlights Biden said it was clear to him that someone set up the account without his knowledge.

The profile in question was found in a trove of accounts dumped on the Web by hackers.

Washington (CNN) The son of Vice President Joe Biden denied Tuesday that he had an account on Ashley Madison, despite an email address discovered on the hacked cheating website that matches one he used.

The lawyer and business executive said in a statement that he did not create the account that appears on the site.

"I am certain that the account in question is not mine," Biden said in a statement provided to CNN. "This account was clearly set up by someone else without my knowledge and I first learned about the account in question from the media."

The existence of the account was first reported Monday by Breitbart News , which found the account information in searching through the huge trove of data on the site's users that was dumped online by hackers earlier this month.

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