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Hackers claim to have 427M Myspace passwords

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Millions of MySpace pages are now in danger of being turned into garish monstrosities by malicious hackers.

So, they're in danger of improvement then?

Obviously the bigger issue is the tens if not hundreds of millions of people who use the same password for MySpace and their email or bank accounts.

> tens if not hundreds of millions

You sure the word "millions" was meant to be there? ;)

Anyone who's using the same password for MySpace and their email and bank hasn't changed their passwords in a decade.

Ok maybe just tens of millions. A lot of people rarely change their passwords.

Pretty sure you meant tens of billions.

Like it even matters. Remember MySpace decided out of the blue to just delete everyone's messages, wall posts, etc back in 2013. And didn't give any options to download a copy of them.

I STILL want a copy of all my private messages and everything else. I can't imagine they actually deleted everything.

It would somewhat matter if people were still using their old passwords for some of their online accounts.

Yes, this is why most password leaks matter. A huge number of people use the same password across multiple sites.

Years ago when I created a MySpace account, I set my password to "password". They eventually added "password" to the password blacklist, but fortunately I was grandfathered in.

I managed to register a Yahoo account when I was a child with the password of 'poo'. Login still works although unsurprisingly I do get a notification of suspicious activity on the account.

Can I just buy my own password? I forgot it ages ago and the email address I registered with no longer exists.

First LinkedIn, now Myspace! I hope Geocities has their eye on the ball where security is concerned!

AngelFire users said to be relaxed about the unfolding situation.

The number 1 password was: homelesspa ?

Anyone know why that's the #1 password?

According to

http://news.softpedia.com/news/possible-myspace-data-breach-...

"Just take note that the first entry, "homelesspa," was automatically generated for a number of accounts that had the same email format, possibly bots or fake users."

Probably some account-creating bot or a group that was creating tons of accounts for sharing so they always used the same password.

Even if it's true, what is he going to do with them?

Myspace has been rotting for a long time, even before Rupert Murdoch decided to waste hundreds of millions to acquire it.

How many people are using the same email and password on other websites? How many people have the same password protecting their email?

True, this is why I use LastPass.

If they have the matching emails, at significant portion of those email/passwords will work for Facebook, and any other site out there.

Sell them for a couple grand on Tor. [1]

Crosslist it with email addresses from more active sites.

Use these credentials to pop more accounts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRealDeal

Hmm. I expected to see (2006) beside the submission title.

Lot of people tend to use the same password always, so I guess it represents a real threat.

Wonder how many of those were in active use recently? Passwords belonging to people who'd recently visited Myspace might be a bit more useful than those from people who left about when Facebook started getting big...

Emails and passwords, you could try those emails elsewhere, including with the respective email itself.

Previous poster is stating the passwords could be the same as they were 10 years ago, why MySpace was popular, and the users aren't using those same passwords anymore.

You would be surprised.

Same hackers also claim to have valuable Prodigy, Compuserve and the more contemporary Geocities account passwords.

Why is "homelesspa" the most common password?

Edit: Just read the article, most likely bots.

https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/myspace

> Due to some accounts having two passwords, there are 427,484,128 total passwords for only 360 million users. Additionally, the accounts with password "homelesspa" seem to be automatically generated as all the emails that use this password follow the same format. We also suspect given the number of passwords with a 1 at the end, MySpace required numbers and letters at some point.

That's impossible, no hacker would create a Myspace account!

Oh, they just mixed geocities and myspace together?

Where in the world should 400M-logins for myspace come from?

Ah, okay, i see. First create 390M fake accounts, then sell them. Profit!

And the news is that... people are apparently still using Myspace :-D

Millions of middle-age spam writers unconcerned.

whats that

And nothing of value was lost.

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