How to Hack Myspace Using Google

Let me begin by apologizing to everyone who currently has a Myspace.com account. I assure you, my intent is not to put your information at risk. On the contrary, I am publishing this with the sincerest hope that you will improve your online behavior in a manner that makes such "attacks" fruitless. That being said, let us just move right into it.

In just 5 minutes I was able compiled a list of 30+ social security numbers, one credit card number (complete with expiration date), 12 login passwords, 100+ home addresses, and about 20 home phone numbers - all belonging to various members of Myspace.com. If this worries you, I apologize, but it gets worse. Everything I did was legal, and the only tool I used was Google.com. Is some of your personal information in my list?

To find out, try the attack yourself. Visit Google.com in another tab. In the search box, type the following:

Site:www.myspace.com "my phone number is"

Today, my search yielded about 138 results, most of which were solid hits on personal Myspace member pages on which someone was careless enough to reveal their phone number (presumably thinking only friends would see it). Try this one on for size:

Site:www.myspace.com "my address is"

Today, this yields 626 results, about half of which are hits on personal pages that reveal a users personal home address. Here is how it works:

When you type

Site:www.website.com "String of text here"

into the search box of Google.com, Google will search every website whose URL starts with www.website.com, for the words "String of text here". Since every Myspace user's webpage URL is in the format: www.myspace.com\username, entering 'site:www.myspace.com' in the beginning of the search box will cause Google to search through the web pages of every single Myspace user that exists.