xmrocks
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Re: huge myspace phishing scam
said by removed  :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.  |
