When do myspace accounts expire

Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway has found that you can restore any account with just three pieces of information. Username is located in the profile url, and name is located on the profile page. Date of birth is probably the hardest of all three to obtain, but not impossible. Lots of people list their date of birth on their Facebook profile, and some even list it on Twitter.

She alerted Myspace to the problem in April, and only received an automated response from the company, which last year revealed that million accounts were compromised as part of a massive hack dating back to We plan to continue to refine and improve this process over time.

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. While most users have not touched their MySpace profiles in a while, people who hijack accounts could still impersonate their victims, so it would be much safer to simply delete accounts on the website.

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