MySpace lost 12 years of music and photos, leaving a sizable gap in social network history

It's 2019 and MySpace is newsworthy again. Unfortunately, it’s for the worst of reasons: massive data loss.

On Sunday, news spread concerning a longtime data issue plaguing MySpace, a site that was once the internet’s leading social network. Millions of songs, photos, and videos that were uploaded to the site before 2015 were lost during a data migration, according to MySpace, with no chance of recovery.

"As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago, may no longer be available on or from MySpace," read a since-removed announcement on the website. “We apologize for the inconvenience.” Read more...