Wonder how many of those were in active use recently? Passwords belonging to people who'd recently visited Myspace might be a bit more useful than those from people who left about when Facebook started getting big...
Previous poster is stating the passwords could be the same as they were 10 years ago, why MySpace was popular, and the users aren't using those same passwords anymore.
Years ago when I created a MySpace account, I set my password to "password". They eventually added "password" to the password blacklist, but fortunately I was grandfathered in.
I managed to register a Yahoo account when I was a child with the password of 'poo'. Login still works although unsurprisingly I do get a notification of suspicious activity on the account.
Like it even matters. Remember MySpace decided out of the blue to just delete everyone's messages, wall posts, etc back in 2013. And didn't give any options to download a copy of them.
I STILL want a copy of all my private messages and everything else. I can't imagine they actually deleted everything.
"Just take note that the first entry, "homelesspa," was automatically generated for a number of accounts that had the same email format, possibly bots or fake users."
> Due to some accounts having two passwords, there are 427,484,128 total passwords for only 360 million users. Additionally, the accounts with password "homelesspa" seem to be automatically generated as all the emails that use this password follow the same format. We also suspect given the number of passwords with a 1 at the end, MySpace required numbers and letters at some point.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 88.6 ms ] threadMyspace has been rotting for a long time, even before Rupert Murdoch decided to waste hundreds of millions to acquire it.
Crosslist it with email addresses from more active sites.
Use these credentials to pop more accounts.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRealDeal
I STILL want a copy of all my private messages and everything else. I can't imagine they actually deleted everything.
Anyone know why that's the #1 password?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/possible-myspace-data-breach-...
"Just take note that the first entry, "homelesspa," was automatically generated for a number of accounts that had the same email format, possibly bots or fake users."
You sure the word "millions" was meant to be there? ;)
Anyone who's using the same password for MySpace and their email and bank hasn't changed their passwords in a decade.
Where in the world should 400M-logins for myspace come from?
Ah, okay, i see. First create 390M fake accounts, then sell them. Profit!
Edit: Just read the article, most likely bots.
> Due to some accounts having two passwords, there are 427,484,128 total passwords for only 360 million users. Additionally, the accounts with password "homelesspa" seem to be automatically generated as all the emails that use this password follow the same format. We also suspect given the number of passwords with a 1 at the end, MySpace required numbers and letters at some point.