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# MySpace Hacks Increase
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/myspace-hacks-i/
- Published: 2007-11-12T06:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2007-11-12T06:13:00.000Z
- Description: It was inevitable. Where ever net traffic goes; the hackers will follow. Now MySpace is a growing target. "At the end of October, there were a number of links added. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/11/myspace-hacks-i.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Marketing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

![Computer_haccker](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/2007/11/12/computer_haccker.jpg "Computer_haccker")

  
It was inevitable. Where ever net traffic goes; the hackers will follow. Now MySpace is a growing target.

"At the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace’s open-redirector

[![Myspace](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/2007/11/12/myspace.jpg "Myspace")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/12/myspace.jpg&ref=hypebot.com)

(MSPlinks) to exploit sites in China," according to Roger Thompson of [Exploit Prevention Labs](http://explabs.blogspot.com/?ref=hypebot.com). "Now, we keep finding MySpace pages that have had some sort of image-background link injected, that are reaching out to a different site in China…The fact that this site (MySpace) is media-rich, with lots of sound and videos means that the FakeCodec trick will be much more effective. The click-er is probably expecting to see a vid, or hear a song, and is quite likely to think he genuinely needs to install something extra."

Here’s a video explaining a recent hack of Alicia Keyes’ MySpace pages.