According to Pete Cashmore, who writes the
Mashable.com blog, MySpace Tom's profile was hacked last Sunday. You can find the details in Pete's January 15 blog post titled
"MySpace's Tom Hacked". Here's a snippet from Pete's post:
On Sunday afternoon, a particularly high-profile attack hit the network: Tom's profile was hacked, sending spam to his 148 million friends. Although lots of users set up fake "Tom" accounts with his profile photo, this bulletin came from Tom's genuine friend ID, and invited users to click a link. Doing so took them to a phishing site that asked them to log in again - the site then used their login details to send out more spam mails.