Myspace Account Phished??

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:12 am

I just logged onto myspace to see a message saying my account was phished and I had to change my password. Now im very aware of phishing sites and im about 99.9% sure I never visited one. Did anyone else get this message on Myspace? I have a feeling they got hacked and there just lying and blaming it on phishing. I only check my myspace when I recieve and email saying something like friend request, new message, etc. Reason im sure it was never phished is i dont delete my email and I checked all past myspace emails ive recieved. NONE of them lead to a phishing site.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:14 am

Is the password obscure enough to not be guessed from publicly available information?

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:14 am

I got this as well. I just changed my password and moved on.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:51 am

My password was a random assortment of numbers and letters, Completely unguessable.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:14 am

Were you prevented from logging in by the message you received? Or rather, did you have to change the password before you could access your account?

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:37 am

After loggin in, it had a big warning message on the main myspace page that shows all your stuff, bulletins, friends list, etc.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:32 am

That's a really dumb system. Hey, your password has been stolen, but we're not going to disable the account or make the password be changed, we're going to keep the same password, so the people who have it can still log in with it.

And you're sure it's a legitimate warning?

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:46 pm

Yea it seemed completely legit, I changed it and it hasn't mentioned it since.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:54 pm

You need to stop going to those porn star profiles....