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Re: huge myspace phishing scam

Wow, that's an impressive list. But 700,000 isn't all that surprising considering the fact that most MySpace users are, well, idiots.

What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.
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What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.
Maybe they are stealing the "oh-so cool backgrounds" the idiots of MySpace are using these days MySpace is such an eyesore!

I guess if the MySpace user uses the same login, as brandon1234 mentioned as eBay/Paypal/their e-mail service, the e-mail address could be stolen and used to send out more phishing and/or scam e-mails that have more value to them (i.e. for banking, etc).

Or maybe it's just the pride oh saying "Yeah, I stole X amount of MySpace passwords!"

Edit: Just to prove my point (not that it needs to be or whatever), I picked a random user in that list, went to their e-mail server site, entered in their e-mail address and password and I'm now into their e-mail.

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Hmm, that's a very interesting point. Out of 700,000 harvested accounts at least 5% of them are bound to have an active PayPal account. 5% of 700,000 = lots and lots of disputed PayPal charges.
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