Myspace

Disclosed May 31, 2016359,420,698 affectedConfirmed

Stolen logins from pre-2013 Myspace accounts offered on hacker forum

Myspace said stolen login data for accounts created before June 11, 2013 on its old platform, including emails, usernames and passwords, was being offered in an online hacker forum; it invalidated those passwords. Have I Been Pwned loaded almost 360 million accounts.

What is known

People affected	359,420,698 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	May 31, 2016
Happened	Jul 1, 2008
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	EmailsPasswordsNames
Sector	Tech · US
Status	Confirmed
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Official noticeoag.ca.gov

California Attorney General breach notice: Myspace

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: MySpace

The organizationweb.archive.org

Myspace Blog: update on security incident

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataMay 31, 2016

Have I Been Pwned359,420,698 people

TotalMay 31, 2016

Research359,420,698 people

Residents of CAJun 3, 2016

California AGCount not stated

History of this record

attack2026-09-25

unknown to hackingby seedSource

data_types2026-09-25

["emails","passwords"] to ["emails","passwords","names"]by seedSource

records_basis2026-09-25

hibp to organizationby seedSource

summary2026-09-25

In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts . In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of to Myspace said stolen login data for accounts created before June 11, 2013 on its old platform, including emails, usernames and passwords, was being offered in an online hacker forum; it invalidated those passwords. Have I Been Pwned loaded aby seedSource

title2026-09-25

empty to Stolen logins from pre-2013 Myspace accounts offered on hacker forumby seedSource

hibp2026-09-25

empty to MySpaceby backfillSource

sector2026-09-25

other to techby backfillSource

data_types2026-09-25

[] to ["emails","passwords"]by backfillSource

records_basis2026-09-25

empty to hibpby backfillSource

records2026-09-25

empty to 359420698by backfillSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2016-06-03 to 2016-05-31by backfillSource

occurred2026-09-25

empty to 2008-07-01by backfillSource

summary2026-09-25

empty to In approximately 2008, MySpace suffered a data breach that exposed almost 360 million accounts . In May 2016 the data was offered up for sale on the "Real Deal" dark market website and included email addresses, usernames and SHA1 hashes of by backfillSource

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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