5 Most Damaging Online Hacks Of 2016

I know, who would have thought that MySpace would still be getting hacked in 2016 - You’re probably thinking ‘I haven’t used that in years!’ Exactly. Regardless of how long ago you used Myspace.com the fact is is you used it, and since then al of your data has just been sat there with Tom waiting to be hacked into. Now, allegedly trying to sell 427 Million stolen MySpace passwords for $2,800, is the same hacker who not so long ago was also selling LinkedIn passwords. I

It’s unclear when the data was stolen from MySpace, but both the hacker, who’s known as Peace, and one of the operators of Leakedsource - a paid hacked data search engine that also claims to have the credentials - have said it’s from a past, unreported, breach. The exact number of accounts that have been hacked is unclear - the database is said to contain 427,484,128 passwords but only 360,213,024 million email addresses - however according to LeakedSource each record dataset contains “an email address, a username, one password and in some cases a second password”.

Oh and in case you were wondering - the 2nd most popular password for LinkedIn is in fact ‘linkedin’!