Your Old Myspace Account Just Came Back to Haunt You
You may have left Myspace and its indie bands behind years ago, but Myspace hasn’t forgotten you. Or rather, it hasn’t forgotten your password, which is unfortunate, because it just revealed that a hacker stole username and password infomation from what could be more than 360 million accounts.
Late last week, Myspace discovered that user login data (those usernames and passwords, and, in some cases, secondary passwords as well) were up for sale in an “online hacker forum.” Myspace says it believes the hacker responsible goes by the name of “Peace,” and that he’s also responsible for therecent hacks of Tumblr and LinkedIn.
Importantly, according to the hack-tracking site LeakedSource, the intrusion itself took place in June of 2013, before MySpace transitioned from failed social network to failed music marketing platform. That means that even if you haven’t used MySpace in years, you still could be vulnerable.
