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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I am having the same problems, i got home from work today, and i had two bulletins posted under my name in which i did not post. One was a racist one like stated above, the other one was a advertisement for some ringtones or something.
hey tmz lately all mah myspace have been erased and now i noe why thnkzzzzz bye
Bunnycake, You're right, There is bigger sh*t going on around the world, why should MySpace get a spot? Well, like Mercedes said It doesn't matter how big or small or where it is, It's still f*cked up. Furthermore, Africa and the Middle East get their fair share of light on the matter of racism, Theres tons of people into that sh*t. Also, This site seems dedicated to pop culture, I've never visited it before, so the fact that they have a spot on racism on myspace, isn't all that ridiculous, is it?
mercedes is right racism is wrong no matter where it happens and myspace is a place where alot of ppl just go on to chat with friends and write blogs or have a journal i know i write in mine daily on myspace and with ppl like them out there slandering the place i go daily it makes it harder to trust that it is my friends on their myspace reading the messages i write them or any thing what would you do if you were emaling your boyfriend/ girlfriend and some person that you have no idea who they are were reading the emails that is about a date or something like that...
It is horrible that people are finding the unnecessary time to hack into myspace. I personally had one that got hacked into, but luckily I caught it early. They are posting untrue things about people which is bad enough. It was if Myspace.com was becoming a tabloid overload, with all of these obnoxious ads, that everyone know's are fake, and rumors spreading wild. People are although over reacting. It is not difficult to create a new Myspace or even correct what was happening. Change your password. It is not a difficult concept. There are more important things happening in the world. Turn on CNN or FOXnews and see what is actually happening in our world. Notice that people are dying everyday. American's are dying everyday because they are trying to save more American's in the future, and those American's that are fighting for us are our loved ones. Don't cry because someone destroyed your Myspace.com account, cry because the ones that you love and care for are on the front lines for the War on Terror.
wow who the f*** cares it will end up being fixed. Bunnyman is right. We should be concerned about global matters more than this crap
Dear commenter number one,
Ever hear of punctuation? Yes, myspace is great, but maybe you should focus on your schooling for now. Then maybe you wouldn't fall for everything.
You know that when a hacker jumps in and does something its just that they are well have nothing to do.. there bored and they attack the public where its most publisty is and right now its in myspace.com and the middle east. but well a hacker cant well get there or there a dead man..heh anyways..most websites that get well known are always attacked like mIRC servers get attacked all the time...
Its true. I too was hacked. Buts all done by exact duplicate of a mirrored site that will copy your login when you get kicked out of myspace after clicking "fake" links. Its then that your identity is taken for there own and their reign of terror in the bulletin world begins. The only thing you can do is log out all the way.. Go to the myspace main web page.. be sure you type it yourself
"www.myspace.com" and make sure that "myspace" is always in the url bar.. other wise someone is watching you on the other side and they could be watching more than just your myspace.. They could even be watching your bank account or more! Be careful! Tom is and the myspace staff is not doing anything to fix this cause they cant. They have been beaten by a simple hacker.. Sad but true. All we can do is look out for each other now. Spread the word!
The bulletin posts havent happened to me but i have seen it on the bulletin space some of the postings are titled as "you won't believe what Abercrombie & Fitch gave me..." and also "Need a CREDIT CARD? Get one TODAY!!" I hope nothing serious goes on because then i will just delete my profile.
Thanks for this report...keep up the good work.
Christie, comment number 36...
How about instead of being "addicted" to a website so you can feel cool and chat with your friends, you go to school and do some homework. Your spelling and grammar is ATROCIOUS, along with your reasoning and argumentation skills.
People who get hacked are the ones who add everyone and their grandma. If they were less of attention whores, there wouldn't be such an issue for them.
hey this actually just happened to me too!! but luckily it was for some gasoline scam or something but its still not even right!!! how the heck are people getting into my account and then emailing all these random people on myspace with my info?? and my page is set to private so no one can see me unless i accept them as a friend! really crazy but i certaintly feel for everyone going thru it too.
I'm too lazy to go through and read over a hundred comments, but from what I have read I want to make a few comments. Thanks to JohnD for pointing out the "samy is my hero" thing and that it's a worm, I immediately scanned my profile for the code to delete it and found it. In regards to celeb profiles on MySpace, it's so easy to create a BS account, most of the so called celeb sites are fakes, deal with it, celebs don't care about MySpace, they're already famous and have all the means they want to communicate with anyone they actually want to. Yes, MySpace has it's problems with hackers, glitches, and random stuff that goes wrong or is slow. So do other sites. It's just the fact that MySpace is so large that they can't take care of all of it right away. And why focus in on some other website when no cares about it, MySpace is the hype (sp?) right now, get over it. If you have a problem with it, don't have an account or ignore the on-goings. It's all in your perspective, how you use it, and what you do with it.
