In the MySpace breach, each of the 360 million records contains an email address and at least one password. Tumblr had 65 million accounts hit.
Before there was Facebook and LinkedIn, there was MySpace.Fifteen years ago, MySpace was the hottest social Internet network going for teens and tweens on laptops. It provided a place for young Web users to be creative and talk about music, cars, sex and TV shows.But when Facebook came into the mainstream in 2006, it made the join-in process simpler to use, enabled better viral connections with friends, made it easier to post photos and videos and brought a much more structured look and feel to personal Web pages. MySpace users quickly fell away.By 2009, MS was in the rear-view mirror of a lot of former users. However, Web thieves haven’t forgotten about all the personal data in sites such as MySpace and Tumblr, which both were hit by huge data breaches at some point(s) in the last several months or years. We know this because MySpace’s owner, Time Inc., revealed May 27 that it has been informed about a large set of stolen MySpace username and password combinations that now are available for sale in an online hacker forum.
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