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MySpace Gets Hacked, And It Could Be You.

If you have a MySpace account, or even worse, have a child who uses MySpace, then I suggest you go immediately to your site and remove any photos, comments, or any other information you wouldn’t want leaking into the public domain.

Of course you might be a little late. Apparently a hacker used a security weakness to break into MySpace servers and steal more than half a million images uploaded by members. And now the photos are being posted free of charge on sites around the web where thousands of surfers have already downloaded them.

Seems like most of the photos were nabbed from private sites, so don’t assume that anything you post even on your private site will ever stay private.

If you still needed a reminder that anything you do, say, or post on MySpace could eventually come back to haunt you, then here it is. So if you have an account, go in and clean house. Before someone else does.

Posted on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:33PM by Registered CommenterNeal O'Farrell in | Comments1 Comment

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