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Hackers Claim to Have a Stunning 427 Million Myspace Passwords

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:

There’s an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don’t yet know they have been hacked.

MySpace, the social media behemoth that was, is apparently in the second category. The same hacker who was selling the data of more than 164 million LinkedIn userslast week now claims to have 360 million emails and passwords of MySpace users, which would be one of the largest leaks of passwords ever. And it looks like the data is being circulated in the underground by other hackers as well.

Read more on Motherboard.


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