6 ms·
Hackers claim to have 427M Myspace passwords
- CM30 10y agoWonder 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...
- giancarlostoro 10y agoEmails and passwords, you could try those emails elsewhere, including with the respective email itself.
- bluedino 10y agoPrevious 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.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoYou would be surprised.
- mariuolo 10y agoEven 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.
- chatmasta 10y agoHow many people are using the same email and password on other websites? How many people have the same password protecting their email?
- droidist2 10y agoTrue, this is why I use LastPass.
- mason240 10y agoIf they have the matching emails, at significant portion of those email/passwords will work for Facebook, and any other site out there.
- nickysielicki 10y agoSell 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRealDeal
- CGamesPlay 10y agoYears 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.
- danbower 10y agoI 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.
- JoshGlazebrook 10y agoLike 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.
- codemac 10y agoThe number 1 password was: homelesspa ? Anyone know why that's the #1 password?
- moyix 10y agoAccording to http://news.softpedia.com/news/possible-myspace-data-breach-exposes-passwords-for-427-million-users-504583.shtml 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."
- dexterdog 10y agoProbably some account-creating bot or a group that was creating tons of accounts for sharing so they always used the same password.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- unclebucknasty 10y agoHmm. I expected to see (2006) beside the submission title.
- vannevar 10y agoMillions of MySpace pages are now in danger of being turned into garish monstrosities by malicious hackers.
- Roodgorf 10y agoSo, they're in danger of improvement then?
- tlrobinson 10y agoObviously 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.
- justinlardinois 10y ago> 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.
- tlrobinson 10y agoOk maybe just tens of millions. A lot of people rarely change their passwords.
- esnard 10y agoPretty sure you meant tens of billions.
- dave2000 10y agoFirst LinkedIn, now Myspace! I hope Geocities has their eye on the ball where security is concerned!
- retox 10y agoAngelFire users said to be relaxed about the unfolding situation.
- reneberlin 10y agoOh, 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!
- randiantech 10y agoLot of people tend to use the same password always, so I guess it represents a real threat.
- irunbackwards 10y agoWhy is "homelesspa" the most common password? Edit: Just read the article, most likely bots.
- DanBC 10y agohttps://www.leakedsource.com/blog/myspace 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.
- benbenolson 10y agoAnd nothing of value was lost.
- bedspax 10y agowhats that
- retox 10y agoMillions of middle-age spam writers unconcerned.
- campground 10y agoCan I just buy my own password? I forgot it ages ago and the email address I registered with no longer exists.
- d33 10y agoThat's impossible, no hacker would create a Myspace account!
- lholden 10y agoAnd the news is that... people are apparently still using Myspace :-D
- mansilladev 10y agoSame hackers also claim to have valuable Prodigy, Compuserve and the more contemporary Geocities account passwords.