MySpace Hacked: Over 300 Million Old Accounts Have Been Leaked Online.
The hack was confirmed by MySpace's parent company Time Inc., with a statement from the organization revealing that the hack had taken place
prior to the Memorial Day weekend. The hack effectively compromised accounts from the old MySpace platform, before the social networking site underwent major changes on June 11, 2013.
Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet
Each record contains an email address, a password, and in some cases, a second password. As some accounts have multiple passwords, that means there are over 427 million total passwords available for sale.
Hacker Offers Millions of MySpace Passwords and Emails for $2,800
On Friday afternoon, the hacker, who goes by the name “Peace” put the hacked MySpace data for sale on the Real Deal darknet website for 6 bitcoin (about $2,800). He told Motherboard he will put the listing up for sale before others start spreading it.
LeakedSource, which announced the leak Friday in a blog, claims the database has 427,484,128 passwords and 360,213,024 emails. Each record in the dataset has a username, an email address, a password, and in some cases, a second password, the site claimed.
