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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Why don't we talk about how to elimate these data miners and how to search and remove code from your profiles? A little constructive info maybe, instead of all this passive mudslinging?
hey tmz. thanks for this article.
alot of my friends have been hacked.
some people have had the n-word bulliten posted.
and i know they wouldnt do that.
also some of my other friends have been posting advertisments
like "wow i just got 15 free ringtones" or "how cool i just got a ps2!"
and its being posted 3 times in one hour every hour. everyday.
im really sick of it.
but i know its not really my friends who are doing it.
one girl was on vacation when her bullitens were being posted
and i know she didnt take a laptop or have a computer when she was gone.
i cant wait for tom and/or the owners of myspace to finally see whats going on
and fix all of this.
wow...i have a friend that does that. he showed me and some friends. its really not that hard to do :/
Thanks TMZ this myspace hacking needs to stop. Many of my friends have been hacked and lucky I haven't yet. They arent as serious as in your article, mostly are talking about winning a free sidekick 3 or xbox 360. The worst has only been advertizing adult sites. Thank you for informing everyone about this.
omg this is happening to me ALL the time. i got on the other day and saw that "i" posted and bulletin and i was like no it wasnt me..then it happend to one of my friends. she did the same thing i did and its makin me mad. it keeps putting stuff on there that i would NEVER put on there and its saying its from me!!!
that happened to me i but i got advertisment for a free phone im glade it wasnt worst. but all u have to do is change ur password and it stoped
Wow what stupid people wont do for amusement.
THere is Absoulutely No proof at all.
You can take a picture of a Fake bullitien. But that holds no relevancy at all.
Do not insult the us (as in people who hack).
If your going to create a hoax, it would be much more convincing if some Technical Data was provided.
Like what ways these alleged White supremist hackers get access to peoples passwords and login INfo.
Well then I bid all the well meaning, and the not so well meaning people in the Tmz staff goodnight.
THis article could get you sued for Libel.
Goodnight people-Lord Cody
I think this is disgusting,that myspace dont appear to be doing anything about it.
In the last few weeks myspace has been down quite a lot,error messages left right and centre when it was up.
And since they changed data centres this problem has got worse,much worse.
I see bulletins every day from friends who arent even online,nothing racist,yet,just advertising adult sites and things like the sidekick 3 (which is crap btw).
90 plus million users on there,the biggest online community,they need to sort this out and fast,or mr murdochs dream will go up in flames!!!
Ok...look...its not that serious...just someone trynna get attention...but they are too much of a bi*** to come forward so its just that simple
Ok, so I have been noticing that bulletins have been posted up for me and some of my friends. I didnt know what was going on, and I still don't. Ithink someone has hacked into our myspaces. Any suggestions?
Hey TMZ... okay so the whole hacker thing happened to me! But mine was like 10 times worse... i had porno being out on my myspace while i was on vacation... i had no access to a computer when i was gone... i had porno, racist, and all different kinds of gross bulletins put on my myspace. I had to get a new account. Im just glad it's over...
hi iv been on my space for quite some time and i have never had a problem but my friend has ever sence this hole thing were it say your signed out and you have to sign back it always happens to her and now she has all these bultins poping up all the time like one after a nuther her mom had the same problem and it acutly deleted all of her friends would not let her add any one or talk to any one i told her to delet her account make a nuther one and change your password all the time thats what i do to keep it from happing and if the screen pops up i close it out and just get off the internet weel i love myspace you guys are doing a good job i just thought i would leave whats been happing i had to get my 2 cents in well keep it up its got me closer to my famliy and friend thanx.
always&forever
Brittney
ya i saw this like in one of my friend's bulletins and was curious to read it. i have been noticing a lot of advertisments being posted more than racist comments. i have seen a lot of the ads from my friends. and yesterday i logged on to see that "i" posted one of those bulletins. i was quite frustrated to say the least. and deleted it. and now i logged on this morning and one of my other friends had the same bulletin with the same exact heading and everything. i just really hope that the hackings stop. i have already changed my password. but now i'm worried that i'll have to change it very frequently and end up forgetting it. i'm just glad that i had already changed my myspace password to be different from all my other ones.
you know what i got hacked to and someone put on my headline "i have jungle feva!!" which is very odd because my password is very hard to remember and very randome to juss guess and i did go to the site where it says you have to login and i think it is soo stupid and retarded that someone would go and do something like that cuz what are they getting out of it anyways what are they acheiving obviously they have no lives and juss wanna find something to do with their lives because without doing this they wouldnt have s*** to do in their lives but i swear once i find out wo it is and if i see them i am gonna tell them something and kick their a**
this is a long comment but i am mad so sorry
much love
carissa marie perez
