60000 MySpace username passwords stolen
One after another problem is following MySpace. Just read on BBC that MySpace is being sued by the families of five teenage girls for negligence and fraud, who claimed were sexually assulted by men they met in MySpace.
Now there’s another problem. Phishers have managed to steal user names and passwords from nearly 60,000 people from a scam Web site designed to look like the login page of MySpace. Later that data was made available from a popular security mailing list. The data from the file showed that some visitors spotted the scam and posted fake and abusive login data but there’re many real victims. The phishing site is currently taken down and both IE7 and Firefox detect it as a phishing site. Brian Kerbs have more details about what kind of passwords were found in the text file. He analyzes the passwords and breaks them down to common passwords, their length and uniqueness. He suggests to get better password.
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on January 26th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
[…] A very popular security web site Seclist.org, which hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources was taken offline by Myspace and GoDaddy. Briefly, this is what happened: You remember the latest phishing scam that stole thousands of Myspace usernames/passwords. The file with the stolen Myspace username/password was archived on the site. So, MySpace asked GoDaddy to take the domain offline and GoDaddy redirected the domain. […]