Myspace vulnerability lets hackers easily break into any account

FRINGE PICTURE SHARING WEBSITE Myspace is really, really easy to hack, and it's probably time you deleted your account.

Myspace, a social network that encouraged you to rank your friends, is largely redundant nowadays, but there are still millions of people with accounts set up on the website.

If you fancy a blast from the past and want to see what emo song you last set to autoplay on your profile, Myspace offers an account recovery mechanism for people who have lost access to their old associated email address.

However, security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway has revealed that it's pretty easy to abuse this recovery tool, which she describes as "so flawed it deserves its own place in history", as it'll let hackers access any Myspace account as long as they have just three bits of information - the target's full name, username and date of birth. 

"Myspace only validates name, username and date of birth. The full name and the username of the account holder can be found from a simple google. Username is located in the profile URL, and name is located on the profile page," Galloway said in a blog post.