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You Can Now Browse Through 427 Millon Stolen MySpace Passwords (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-research-and-amusement dept.

Stan Schroeder, writing for Mashable:An anonymous hacker managed to obtain an enormous number of user credentials in June 2013 from fallen social networking giant MySpace -- some 427 million passwords, belonging to approx. 360 million users. In May 2016, a person started selling that database of passwords on the dark web. Now, the entire database is available online for free. Thomas White, security researcher also known by the moniker "Cthulhu," put the database up for download as a torrent file on his website, here. "The following contains the alleged data breach from Myspace dating back a few years. As always, I do not provide any guarantees with the file and I leave it down to you to use responsibly and for a productive purpose," he wrote. The file is 14.2 GB in size; downloading it might take some time. It is password-protected, but White made the password available on Twitter and his site.

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  1. Much easier than by fropenn · · Score: 3, Funny

    going through MySpace's password recovery feature. Now, maybe I will be able to update my MySpace page for the first time in ten years!

  2. Re:i don't get it by Schezar · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're not stolen. The original users of those passwords still have them. ;)

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  3. Re:The real question is.. by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's that site that a lot of Slashdotters went to a long time ago and painfully discovered that it requires having friends.

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  4. Re:security researcher my ass by bmk67 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who precisely is "you people"?