basically somebody makes a link in myspace that goes to a different website that looks like myspace's login screen and an unsuspecting victim would just think myspace logged them off cause myspace always has problems.
it tells you to log in with your email and password and it takes that information into a database and uses your accounts to advertise. even if your myspace hasnt been used to advertise, it may just be laying in the database waiting to be used.
it doesn't stop at advertising. many people use the same passwords for just about everything so if the stolen accounts use like yahoo or hotmail, it takes the email adress and tries to log in with your myspace password and if it succeeds, then it has access to everything from credit cards to other personal information. usually changing your myspace password fixes this but if your email password is the same as your myspace login, then you must change that also because it can still access your email.
as you can see, the makers of myspace are not responsible for this.
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