Other information in the records included email addresses and one or two passwords—the total number of passwords was just over million.
Discover New People on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. But for a handful of hardcore users, Myspace remains essential. in the s and s through several appearances on TV dating shows.
I confirmed with LeakedSource that the database contains my old Myspace login details. The site gave me my unencrypted Myspace password which I have now changed , showing how easily they were able to remove its protections. As security researcher Troy Hunt noted, indications arose a couple months back of people receiving spam emails to accounts they only ever used for Myspace:.
This is interesting, note the date: Myspace itself had not provided any comment at the time of writing. Last November, the site got 50 million unique visitors in the U. That's a lot of visitors for a site that most people haven't thought about in 8 years. Facebook currently boasts million daily active users worldwide.
If you're going to venture into the depths of your MySpace account, be careful. The captions you put on your horrible mirror selfies when you were 16 were not cool. I'm warning you now.
The captions on my MySpace photos are all lyrics to songs from Sondheim musicals. It made me cringe so hard to read them.
We plan to continue to refine and improve this process over time. Those that they know they trust. The volatility of social networks was exemplified in when Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched an investigation into children's exposure to pornography on Myspace; the resulting media frenzy and Myspace's inability to build an effective spam filter gave the site a reputation as a "vortex of perversion". In the world of dating sites, people are currency. The data is now searchable in Have I been pwned yes, all ,, unique email addresses and if you do find yourself in there and know when your account was created, drop a note in the comments below and we might be able to crowd source a more accurate picture of when this event occurred.
You were a good year. You're just lucky that I used the black and white Photo Booth setting and not that horrible four pane Warhol-inspired one that is so vivid in my memory.