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July 1, 2016 12:52 pm GMT

You can now browse through 427 million stolen MySpace passwords

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An anonymous hacker managed to obtain an enormous number of user credentials in June 2013 from fallen social networking giant MySpace — some 427 million passwords, belonging to approx. 360 million users. In May 2016, a person started selling that database of passwords on the dark web. Now, the entire database is available online for free

Thomas White, security researcher also known by the moniker “Cthulhu,” put the database up for download as a torrent file on his website, here

"The following contains the alleged data breach from Myspace dating back a few years. As always, I do not provide any guarantees with the file and I leave it down to you to use responsibly and for a productive purpose,” he wrote Read more...

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