Over 427 million MySpace passwords leaked online

Okay, we know nobody remembers MySpace anymore, but the site still surprisingly serves l 1000000 unique visitors a month. Once a social media behemothic, the site was manifestly hacked and the data of over 360 million MySpace accounts is up for grabs. Wondering who is selling this data? The same hacker who was selling data of over 160 million LinkedIn users last week.

Stolen data of over 360 meg MySpace users upward for sale

The hacker claims to take 360 million emails and passwords of MySpace users, peradventure making it one of the largest password leaks ever. The information reportedly come forrard from an unreported breach of the social network. Both the hacker, known as Peace, and LeakedSource, a search engine of hacked data, claim to have the credentials merely haven't shared whatever sample of the data. To verify, folks atMotherboardgave email addresses of 5 MySpace users and LeakedSource "was able to send back" passwords of all the v accounts.

MySpace was hacked. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This database was provided to us past a user who goes past the alias "Tessa88@exploit.im", and has given us permission to name them in this blog. MySpace has not returned our asking for annotate on this affair, nor have they replied to a similar request from a reporter. - LeakedSource

Announcing the leaked data before today, LeakedSource claimed that the database contains 427,484,128 passwords, but just 360,213,024 million emails, as some accounts had a second password attached. Over 360 million records have leaked, each containing "an electronic mail address, a username, one password and in some cases a 2nd countersign." The hacker has now put the data up for sale for 6 Bitcoin ($2,800) in the night spider web market place The Real Deal.

Top near used passwords in the leaked MySpace database

Talking almost the encryption level of stored passwords, LeakedSource said that the passwords were stored in SHA1 with no salting, making decrypting incredibly easy. "The methods MySpace used for storing passwords are not what internet standards propose and is very weak encryption or some would say it'south non encryption at all," noted LeakedSource. The site expects to crack 98 or 99% of all the leaked passwords past the stop of the calendar month.

This will be an immense amount of data, and fifty-fifty though the site is no longer used past many, considering our poor password direction practices, few of these might actually yield some active and useful combinations that work on other sites. As Motherboard points out, "this is i of the largest data thefts ever," if the numbers pan out and are shared accurately.