MySpace has been touted as almost a Messiah to the music industry over the past year, allowing people the ability to share their favorite artists with friends, listen to bands they love and discover new bands that they may never have heard before. 
Green Tea Monkeys, an indie ska/punk/reggae band from Germany, hoped to tap into MySpace's potential to achieve the success of other once no-name bands like Hawthorn Heights, Hollywood Undead and even Jack White's new baby The Raconteurs -- all were able to capitalize on the social networking site in their rise to prominence.
But what they never thought they would have to do is apologize to their entire fan base for unauthorized racist bulletins post under the band's name. "For us as a little band, it's worse when our fans won't believe in us ... to have to show people that we're not talking sh*t and that they can still believe and trust in what we're saying" they say.
Over the past couple of months, a rash of hacking has taken over MySpace, the most popular Web site since, well, the Web. The scale of the hacks has the MySpace community up in arms and is prompting people to ask when MySpace is going to step up.
The hacks are occurring through the bulletin section of each individual's MySpace profile. The extent of the hack is unknown, but as any MySpace user can tell you, in order to post a bulletin -- whether real or counterfeit - you must have access to an individual's account. That suggests that any and all information that a person has stored within their profile, including personal e-mail addresses, passwords, and e-mails, could be accessible to hackers. 
The counterfeit bulletins causing the biggest uproar are those containing defamatory racial remarks that would make the grand wizard of the KKK blush. It appears that the three most common racist posts are: "I'm Gonna Kill Y'all Ni**as," "F*ck All Y'all Ni**as!," and "Get Out of America You F*ckin Ni**as!"
Each of these appears in the bulletin section -- with the user's name attached as the author of the bulletin. That means that every single one of the user's "friends" receives this information in connection with the owner of the account, who is listed as the author. Horror stories run rampant about the extent to which people have had to defend their character under these circumstances.
There's no way to measure how long the racist impressions will resonate before users have the ability to apologize and set the record straight. But then should MySpace users have to apologize for something like this in the first place?
TMZ attempted to contact MySpace for comment. We were not successful.
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Nigga -- in that exact spelling isn't even a rascist term (hackers ARE annoying but I think if thats how he spelled the word it was meant more as a "joke" -- even if it was lewd-- than a hate speech). I think most of the people here who are doing backflips over this are some pseudo-hippies somewhere in middle american suburbian white neighborhoods with too much time on their hands and no real life experience. Try living in a city for a bit -- that goes to all the illiterate idiots brainwashed by rap (not black) culture who go on and on talking about "yo dawg i am fo shizzy sorry 'bout dat evil shit my dirty ass cracka white devils did to ya'll i wish i were aint no whitey dog i be embarassed being a crack straight up dog lord is crying each and everyday what us white devils did fo' u son fo shizzy my heart bleeds my otha brotha if i could id give my life just to dry one tear of the black angels that fell under the rapist tyranny of my peoples, word". First of all not all white people were slave owners (so forget blaming automatically blaming a specific race -- blame the politics of the period at the places where it happened), second slavery and discrimination was manifested in just about every part of the world by every type of culture/race etc -- open a history book. The jewish people that were in concentration camps by the germans are currently doing just about the same thing to others in Israel (and so forth). It sickens me soometimes -- just how poorly people are educated nowdays. So we have some person on wellfare with a crack addiction and lifetime in crime ranting about something that happened hundreds of years ago which has been happening to everyone throughout history, who then goes out and sells crack and uses that "n word" with a tourette obsession. Personally if you really had an eye you'd see that many of these so called niggas are just social parasites, who are just lewd and impudent petty criminals -- and in this present era this so-called NIGGA can be of any racial origin -- including caucasian. People that just sit in their suburban upperclass neighborhood homes, never seeingthe real world once, complaining about how horrible someone is to use a word they don't know the meaning too is amazing to me (btw if you really analyze current trends you'd find that in reality a huge percentage of black people exhibit very rascist behaviour).
i completly agree wit Bunnycake. y shud myspace get all dis attenshun for? therz mor importent tingz to wurry about in tha wurld then som ovrrated, addicting, wast ov life website....
There are problems with all sites. Myspace just happens to be huge. Alot of teens, and adults have one. "Tom" should have expected it. People these days have mad skills on the computer, he should have a hell of alot of firewalls, and security to protect not only his ass, but ours too.
my cousins account got hacked i think, because she keeps posting all these bulletins with links to sites that either dont exist or those stupid sites that try to get you to do all those "offers" and stuff, and ive asked her about it and she said "idk i dont post those they just appear" i dont know but i think this hacking shi* needs to stop. its bullshi* .
-Ally
Someone said in a previous comment that, rather than allow their kids to join MySpace, loving parents should make their kids do homework or read the Classics. While those are exceptional and necessary activities, it is important to consider that MySpace is essentially a social environment, and so those activities would not suffice.
Myspace, IM, Email, etc, are all capable of producing good traits in people -- that is, if they can practice some maturity. What I mean by this is, it is so simple to just click on something peculiar. Just a *click* and you have what you want (not considering slow computers and such). But the honor in it is when someone sees something he/she KNOWS is "out of place" (in reference to viruses and porn and all that sh*t), and so he/she avoids it.
Wise people turn their profiles to "private" so they may retain their anonymity. They talk to people they know, i.e. THEY DON'T MAKE FRIENDS WITH COMPLETE STRANGERS!!! They may use the website as a simple way to contact a whole bunch of people they know for the goals of just keeping in touch, scheduling events, or maybe just entertainment. I mean, look at that place: it is probably the biggest network in the world with IM, a generic form of Email, a personal and customizable web page, bulletins that any friend can see instantly, and EVEN MUSIC...oh, must I go on?
MySpace is hardly the heart of blame for all the occurances of rape and murder and such. It happens all the time in the real world, but rather, it is the Internet as a whole that is being used as a tool BY the real world...and FOR the real world. As ideal a place MySpace is for ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE (in opposition to the statement that MySpace users are losers), no place on the Internet should be treated as some fairy-princess-whatever-place that you can stick your whole life into, and not risk it being taken or shaken. There is hardly a place in the real world like that. Everyone, you must use your street-smarts!
.......LONG STORY SHORT: MySpace is just a tool. A tool is not harmful if it is used the right way....
Yeah, such as learning proper grammar, RavenWingY2K (retard). All those people here talking about myspace being for losersmust be in serious delusional denial. By that logic we're all "loser's" since we use this nergy geek dork invention for dweebs called the internet, right? Myspace is just a conveniet extention of an e-mail account, not to mention a good way to keep in touch with friends that might have moved out of state (exchange media and find old friends from highschool etc) and so forth. It's not a dating service or a "tard zone" popularity contest, unless you make it one. But you must feel so hip to knock it, right? "people"
holy sh*t myspace has been hacked! who cares about it or what was said I am by far not a racist but it is words typed onto a screen it isnt someone physically harassing anyone its ignorant to have such an outcry for nameless wussies who are probably 12 year old kids who are bored and rather computer savvy....as far as bunnycakes yeah theres problems in other countries but honestly I am tired of hearing about them too....what about our soldiers who are coming back from those godforsaken war torn countries to find no one wants them back our gov has no plans of "supporting" them if they are injured etc and like mercedes said we do have starving kids here in fact we have enough homeless starving natural americans that we should be ashamed to send anything to these other countries....but myspace is purly entertainment nothing more so get over it or log out for good but please stop bitching about it as for sexual predators yahoo chat aol chat any chat room etc offers them just as much as myspace does myspace isnt the antichrist parents who dont monitor their children are the ones in the wrong anyone knows you cannot trust teenagers we were all one at some point so it isnt up to website owners to watch your kids its up to you stop passing the blame to tv video games music and now the internet .....ok im done now
i realized my myspace had been hacked in when i was deleteing messages in my inbox, all saying read but when i got to msg: 33, it was unread, then msg 36, & i was like what is going on...then i could log in to my_myspace.....
so i went to FAQ page & clicked.....myspace page my b compromissed by hackers & typed in my email address.....
also viruses on my music video pasge where u can get codes to post on your myspace page......
so beware & have latest edtion of antivirus software & firewall blocker: that prevents unwanted pop-ups that also have viruses.................!
I am also one of the many people on myspace and i just wanted to say that i agree this is getting rediculous. My myspace was one of the many hacked, but not is not as nearly bad as what happened to this band. The only bullentins sent out on mine were adult porn sites and other stupid stuff. I hope someone gets this under control soon.
Hey, things like this has been happening to me for a while now..and i never thought nothing about it. Every time i clicked on a bulliten add it would always make me sign in again..and i was cool with it cause i thought that i had been idle for too long and it logged me out..so i always put all my information in. Well the other day i clicked on another bulliten add and it pulled up a screen that told me to log back into myspace again, but i didnt...cause then i figured something wasnt right cause i had just signed in. Well im glad that yall are finally telling us stuff, and thanks!! I will make sure that i change my password on everything I have!!
P.S. dont worry, ill still be using myspace!!
hi everybody. i am fourteen and i have a myspace.
i don't understand why in a thing about how myspace has been hacked people are talking about how our parents should be ashamed of themseleves, and how if we were not on myspace, the world would be a better place. although my parents do not completly apporve of the fact that i have a myspace, they are aware that i have a private profile, gave out no personal information, and all of my 71 friends are people from my honors classes. Why should my mother or father be ashamed of me for having a myspace when there are tweleve year-olds who pretent to be fourteen to get a myspace and take the skimpiest pictures and have thousands of friends?
And Bunnycake you said that instead of myspace we should go to Africa and help the starving kids. Are you not aware that there are starving kids in America? So if I decided not to go on myspace for the hour or so that I go on it a day, I would save the starving kids? I don't think so.
But back to the issue at hand. People are posting fake bullietins that many people may find offensive. In case anyone hasn't noticed. People put the most outrageuos subjects on thier bullietins so that you will open them. Although I do not think the words used (then N word) were approprate, I think a few people may be carrying it away a little. If people are hacking into myspace accounts for the sole purpose of telling people to go F themselves, why do you care, this person obviolsly has no life at all.
Another thing I would like to bring up is if instead of a Caucasion person posting a bullietin with the N word in it, a Latino or African American person, posted one with F all gringos or crackers would we still be talking about it? No.
So as a fourteen year old, I don't underdtand how adults who post their concerns (if thats what you would call them) about myspace.com so immaturely. For example "myspace is for losers... their parents should be ashamed of their kids and themselves." Then why are you posting your statements on a bullietin board about myspace?
It's not like myspace is the inly interent site like this: there's blackplanet.com, mycrib.net, myyearbook.com. And then there's the online dating sites, you don't think there are any pedophiles or hackers on those?
Thanks for reading
Ashley
My myspace was hacked into about a month ago. someone was posting bullitin about gay people.
I think that who ever is messing with myspace needs to leave it alone...I get to send messages to my friend in Iraq through myspace and It will really make me mad if they do something to mess up my account! Why do people have to mess with everyone eles? Don they not have a life? If not I really wish that they would get one!
ok first off, this article is biased in every aspect because the writer doesnt know what he or she is talking about.
-yes it is possible that some people are being hacked
-it is most likey just friends trying to get other friends passwords to see if their girl is cheating on them or possibly to also exploit and do advertising
HOWEVER, one does not need your account info to post a bulletin from YOUR myspace. all YOU have to do is click one of those little links that your stupid friends (who clicked the link earlier). it will take you to a different site that will use javascript or variant to go back to your myspace, post and accept the bulletin that carries this malicious crap. ALL without ever knowing your info.
there is even javascript and flash that will dig into your saved password so dont be an idiot and click every link you get
This happened to my sisters. But instead of only putting out random bullitins to porn sites and such.. they also kept deleting her background and picture slideshow on her page. Honestly.. who wants to do something like that?
