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Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard: There's an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don't yet know they have been hacked. MySpace, the social media behemoth that was, is apparently in the second category. The same hacker who was selling the data of more than 164 million LinkedIn users last week now claims to have 360 million emails and passwords of MySpace users, which would be one of the largest leaks of passwords ever. And it looks like the data is being circulated in the underground by other hackers as well. It's unclear when the data was stolen from MySpace, but both the hacker, who's known as Peace, and one of the operators of LeakedSource, a paid hacked data search engine that also claims to have the credentials, said it's from a past, unreported, breach.
Can they tell me what mine is?
There are still 427 million MySpace accounts.
of value was lost.
Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords...
And yet nothing of value was lost.
Seriously, anyone uses MySpace anymore?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Do they eventually go away?
Seriously, you expect me to believe there are still over 400 million Myspace accounts left?
I mean really. Next you will be telling me there are unpaid women on Ashley Madison.
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What is Myspace? Never heard of it.
Why the fuck do Slashdot users defend these bastards? Hackers who cause problems for millions or hundreds of millions of people should be arrested and executed. Why do hackers who cause this kind of trouble deserve to live? They are a useless drain on society and we shouldn't even spend the money to incarcerate them. Of course, Slashdot users will tell me I'm wrong and defend the hackers because they support criminal activity against innocent users. In fact, Slashdot users will blame the victims and say that's what you get for using Myspace.
It turns out among those 427 million passwords are also both of Myspace its active users !
Where do I get in contact with these people? -I lost my MySpace password 11 years ago.
My username was Ea tm E
If you keep that stuff in your database, encrypt it!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Someone tell Tom its time to change his password.
If they manage to send a hacker back to 2003 they might be able to do some damage.
Can I pay their ransom in Flooz?
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Maybe you should log in to AOL or Prodigy and see for yourself!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Put malware on my AOL disk?
Vandalize my Geocities website?
They're called "hackers", meaning they're guilty. Who these people are? What they've done? IRRELEVANT. "Hacker" equals guilty, it's the law!
... full of Confederate dollars.
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because you KNOW a percentage of those (probably greater than 10) STILL use the same password on other sites.
Myspace is still a thing?!?
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Companies are rapidly all falling into the same category: those that have been hacked and will be hacked again.
At what point does the FBI get involved? That's got to be dozens of dollars in damage right there!
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
I keep trying to reconcile the headline of 427 Million passwords with the summary of 360 Million passwords and Emails.
So I guess the hackers have 67 Million passwords without logins?
Seriously, who still uses it?
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
The wild wild west needs to end, by either tracking down and prosecuting hackers, or by corporations taking security seriously. Personally, I think both needs to happen. LinkedIn and MySpace are not the only things these people are going after. I'm tired of having to monitor my firewall daily looking for more networks from China, Taiwan, India and Russia to block.
Too many people just simply accept (or are completely ignorant of) being hacked just because they have an account on a website or are connected to the Internet at home. I do not accept.
who the fuck even uses MySpace anymore?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I really only would think you would hack myspace out of sheer boredom or curiosity of the security. Given that majority of the user names and passwords are from inactive accounts, and I would think most of the emails and passwords are outdated.
That's like having a billion Prussian francs.
Is that like a wannabe Facebook or something?
The real news here, is that 427m people are still using myspace
And they are also worthless!
Your mom.
I have some Enron Stock.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
"This still matters right guys? What? What do you mean what year is it? It's 2003 obviously"
427 Million People on MySpace, That is news!
Good luck sorting the dead accounts
A lot of people are laughing because password leaks of deprecated sites would be of no use to them.
But 427 million lines of actual passwords added to a dictionary file would not be trivial to discount.
Of course, in this instance, it's myspace so perhaps they are right to laugh. Piping that file through a sort -u might leave them with lot less than advertised.
One hacker appears to have North Korea's Facebook password.
I am wondering why this could be a problem. MySpace is so yesterday and all those young kids deserve to be hacked!
Please buy them.
Probably 426 Million of the hacked passwords are "123456".
Someone stole 426.99 million passwords used by chatbots and Nigerian princes.
um... ok?
It might be their first chance to delete the stupid posts they made in the 90s before they forgot their MySpace password. Many people who have since learned the need for careful guarding of privacy online have an old unrecoverable myspace page with personal information on it that they are unable to delete.
Is that another one of those new trendy apps?
They should have called it safespace.cum for all the little precious emo/homos.
Just kidding, didn't have one. Haha. Windows users are funny, aren't they?
but just barely...
If you are really going to abandon a (digital) space (like myspace), replace the password with something randomly generated and as long as the site will allow before nuking your profile...
...and nothing of value was lost.
my passwd is 4n0ny|\/|0u50\/\/4r|d.
It's considered suitably retro now. I'm going to write a kickstarter proposal for emulating blink tags with React as soon as I've fixed my fixie.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I thought that died with BeBo!
A lot of people uses the same password (sigh) on several services. I would not wonder if many of those passwords will work on facebook & co., too
How many AOL passwords have they stolen?