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May 31, 2016 · Time Inc., owner of MySpace, confirmed Tuesday that the once-popular social media site was hacked. The leaked database contained about 360 million accounts with 427 million passwords, according...
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Oct 4, 2015 · It was around midnight on October 4, 2005, in Los Angeles, when Samy Kamkar, then a 19-year-old hacker, released what has come to be known as the “Samy worm,” perhaps the fastest-spreading computer...
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Jun 1, 2016 · Usernames, passwords and email addresses registered before June 11, 2013 were compromised and were spotted on an online hacking forum, according to a May 31 Myspace blog post. Officials believe Russian cyberhacker ‘Peace’, who is allegedly responsible for the LinkedIn and Tumblr breaches, is also responsible for this event.
MySpace, once the largest social networking site, experienced a massive data breach that came to light in 2016. The breach itself reportedly occurred years earlier, around 2013, but its full extent only became widely known when stolen data was found being offered for sale on dark web marketplaces.
Jul 18, 2017 · A security vulnerability in Myspace allowed access to old accounts with just a name, account name, and date of birth.
Jul 18, 2017 · Leigh-Anne Galloway shared a blog post detailing a flaw she spotted on Myspace's account recovery page that makes accessing accounts extremely simple.
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Aug 19, 2015 · Samy Kamkar is in a dark room in Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas; the room is lit by blue lights and the glow of laptop screens. A DJ is spinning lyric-less music while hackers sit at round tables intermittently coding and chatting.
