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Myspace data breach

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Xamtheking said:
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Because there are millions of people who use the same password for everything and never, ever, ever change it.

I know people who have been using the same fucking password since AOL circa 1997. I changed my passwords to my e-mails like 37 times alone in the past 2 years from the 734 braches that seemingly happen every other fucking week so i am not too worried about any myspace information they get because like facebook i never post(ed) any actual personal information.
 
You didn't delete your MySpace account?
 
My gmail account is fine...but that poor yahoo account I still have is probably on fire at this point. At least I had the smarts to move all my important accounts over from there years ago. It does make a nice spam repository tho.
 
It seems they did delete my account after prodding. I can't find it, and when I checked my old email it hadn't been breached there.

Now, if only I could delete it.
 
So just to be clear about the effect... you're all really sure you're not using the passwords you commonly used back then on any other sites where you might use the same email?
 
DOWN said:
I'm pretty sure no one has the same email account they used in 2006 anymore
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Why not? :/ i still have my Hotmail one from around 2000'ish.

And before you ask, no I don't have sensitive information on that. That's what my other emails are for :)
 
strafer said:
you cant

just as you cant delete your facebook account
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Yes you can. Deleted mine a couple years ago actually. I went to check up on everything and went to a friends page and my antivirus detection started to go crazy, decided I didn't need to deal with that anymore, so I deleted it.
 
Rayis said:
I deleted my account like 6 years ago so I have nothing to fear
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Check "Have I been pwned" for answers. You have been pwned. This Myspace breach happened in 2008. As a reference, LinkedIn breach happened in 2012. Both datas were sold this week in black market.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I don't know why people are taking this lightly. Myspace + Linkedin password revealed this week + TeamViewer hacks this week seems less of a coincidence.

Know what's funny? Both the data was sold by the same leaker for a mere $2000-ish.
 
Yep, my old email shows up for this leak on HIBP; guess it's time to remind myself what I was into nearly a decade ago.

edit: Oh wow, my shitty custom profile was wiped out and replaced with what appears to be Myspace's equivalent to Twitter's "moments" tab. A fitting end, I suppose.

These random-ass photos I apparently decided to upload are still there, though:

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So if we find one of our email addresses on that HIBP site but we've recently changed our email/passwords we should be find, right?

Like two weeks ago I spent all day trying to change all my email/website passwords. Found out I have even more emails than I even remembered and found a chain of them that I'm totally locked out from too. ):

Like I have one that send the password reset request to one I forgot I had. Which I can't for the life of me remember the password to. But the reset for that one goes to a Hotmail account that's been shut down and gone for years. So I'm stuck. ):

But I've reset all my passwords very recently so I should be good even with this new breach right? Especially if it happened in 2008?
 
BlueTsunami said:
You can delete your FB. You need to follow a specific link, which you Google, and it takes 14 days to delete.
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Alphahawk said:
Yes you can. Deleted mine a couple years ago actually. I went to check up on everything and went to a friends page and my antivirus detection started to go crazy, decided I didn't need to deal with that anymore, so I deleted it.
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You can "delete" it. Yet the data is stored on their servers forever. No one but FB/Myspace will see it, but they can still run analytics or w/e they want on it.

Your data is invisible to the outside world, but internally you're still there.

It's called a soft delete.
 
According to HIBP they got me (and password as plaintext, what). I don't use that password for anything anymore so I don't really care. They can have my MySpace page.
 
The email address I used for MySpace is long dead, and the password is an ancient one I've not used is nearly 10 years. Actually the only reason it still exists is because you can't delete your account without email confirmation.

Have fun with my MySpace account, I guess.
 
I think this is another reminder to delete old accounts when they lose usefulness.

It's not about whether you care about the account. It's about whether a determined hacker will use the information in these low level accounts to perform a social engineering attack on something far more important.

Most of these accounts were made before it was seen as a bad idea to give sites you'd location, date of birth and real name. Many didn't anyway but some did.

We are at the point where in some places in the world, compromising peoples data is pretty much a professional vocation. We have moved very far from a couple kids in basements doing this for the lulz.

Keep as much seperate as possible and make new email addresses almost as frequently as new passwords.
 
Struct09 said:
If you want to see if you were affected, HIBP has already been updated with this leak: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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I have not used MySpace in I don't know how many years, a long time ago though, I have checked HIBP with the email address I have written down for MySpace but the only compromised site for this email address is the Adobe one in 2013.

Were MySpace accounts that were active (or used in a recent time-scale) affected by this breach?
 
I still use the same email, but I must have changed the password at least half a dozen times since creating my myspace account. The passwords were probably different begin with.
 
Kind of crazy how much of a blip on the screen Myspace really was when you think about it, and Facebook has been chugging along for years now, at least twice as long as Myspace was relevant. And people in circa 2009-2010 were saying Facebook would be replaced by something new within a few years. Well here we are.
 
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