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1. www.bbc.co.uk › bbcthree › articleHow the world responded to the Myspace data loss - BBC Three

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   Jun 29, 2020 · It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed. Myspace was sold to NewsCorp in 2005 for $580m (£437m) but, after gradually losing users over the years, was bought for $35m in ...

2. www.ecomsecurity.org › security-news › myspaceMyspace, victim of a major data breach: 360M accounts ...

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   Jun 1, 2016 · Myspace has revealed in an official announcement that it was the victim of a major data breach. The incident took place a few years ago and is thought to have affected close to 360 million accounts. Myspace’s technical security team confirmed that information that was being offered on an online forum is genuine. Myspace, which is a Time […]

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   What happened to MySpace user data?

   • A lot of Myspace user data got scrubbed in its redesign a few years ago, but the mass exodus away from the service when social networks like Facebook were on the rise definitely left a number of forgotten accounts that are still live in some form and could be exploited.

   A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account

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   Is MySpace a failure?

   • Failures like the one at Myspace are not just personal catastrophes, Mr. Scott said. The information people share on social media can seem mundane, but it contributes to family and community histories. “This is our modern folklore,” he said. Myspace is hardly the first service to lose user data, intentionally or by accident.

   Myspace, Once the King of Social Networks, Lost Years of Data From Its

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   What happened to MySpace in 2011?

   • Myspace registered its sharpest audience decline in February 2011, as traffic fell 44% from a year earlier to 37.7 million U.S. visitors. This drop meant advertisers were no longer willing to commit to long-term deals with the site.

   What Happened to Myspace? The Fall of the Social Giant | Enterprise

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   What went wrong at MySpace?

   • In a speech at the By:Larm conference in Oslo this week, Percival gave an insider’s view of what went wrong at MySpace, from the “massive spaghetti-ball mess” of its website and the “politics, greed” of parent company News Corporation to a doomed attempt to acquire music streaming service Spotify.

   MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/03/19 › businessMyspace, Once the King of Social Networks, Lost Years of Data ...

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   Mar 19, 2019 · March 19, 2019. Myspace, once one of the world’s most popular websites, has long since plummeted in relevance, but for years it has provided its earliest users a place where they could revisit ...

5. www.wired.com › story › myspace-security-accountA Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account

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   Jul 17, 2017 · Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway notified Myspace about the flaw in April, and published details about it on Monday after failing to receive a substantive response. The problem stems from ...

6. em360tech.com › tech-article › what-happened-to-myspaceWhat Happened to Myspace? The Fall of the Social Giant ...

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   Nov 14, 2023 · One pivotal moment came when Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired Myspace for a whopping $580 million in 2005, which led to the introduction of a number of new features that destroyed the user experience that made Myspace so popular in the first place. MySpace website with ads cluttering page. News Corp wanted to focus, on advertising ...

7. www.theguardian.com › technology › 2015MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti ...

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   Mar 6, 2015 · In a speech at the By:Larm conference in Oslo this week, Percival gave an insider’s view of what went wrong at MySpace, from the “massive spaghetti-ball mess” of its website and the ...

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Samy_(computer_worm)Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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   Samy (computer worm) Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm ( XSS worm) that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time. [3]