MySpace Flaw Leaks Private Teen Photos

Posted on January 25, 2008
Filed Under News, Scams, Frauds, Exploits & Vulnerabilities

There is no doubt that MySpace dominates the social networking industry and there are also the most popular in the industry…..popular for the weakest security.

Recently, a backdoor exploit in MySpace allows anyone to have access of photos/pictures in profiles that are set to private. MySpace has been assuring it's members that only those who are authorized are allowed to access the private photos but it seems that every time they close a backdoor, another one comes up. It has been going on for months (since last year).

The latest backdoor exploit news has been rapidly circulating on their message boards and a massive 17 GigaByte (GB) file that contains more than 500 thousand private images has been circulating in BitTorrent and Warez Forum…making this the biggest security breach ever!

There are several articles mentioning this exploits/breaches:
http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2008/01/myspaces-data-disaster.html
http://volkdefense.com/?p=132

Read up those articles for more details and here's a word of advice:

Don't put photos that you don't want other people to see on MySpace or any other Social Networking site…even if you plan to set your profile to private that does not mean you're safe!

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