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MySpace Users Big Targets for ID Thieves

An AP newswire article by Gary Gentile, via MSNBC, reports that:

MySpace bills itself as a "place for friends." Increasingly, it is also a place for unfriendly attacks from digital miscreants on the prowl, luring users to sexually explicit Web sites, clogging mailboxes with spam messages and playing on the trust users have when speaking to "friends" to obtain passwords that could lead to identity theft.

Managing the risks that come with rapid growth is an enormous challenge for MySpace, now part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate. The site can't afford to drive away users, who might defect to one of a growing number of alternative sites, or advertisers, who pay top dollar to reach the growing MySpace audience.

More here.

This article comes on the same day that yet another exploit on MySpace has been divulged.

posted by Fergie @ 12/25/2006 01:16:00 PM