Incident

MySpace worm

incident:myspace_worm Also: Samy worm incident

The MySpace-wide disruption caused by the Samy worm, including the temporary outage of the site.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing INVOLVES Samy worm Explicit 61
outgoing INVOLVES MySpace Explicit 61

Claims

MySpace worm INVOLVES Samy worm

The MySpace incident involved the self-spreading Samy worm.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 61 Details

“Samy has just created a MySpace worm and it’s spreading”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 19451–19506

MySpace worm INVOLVES MySpace

The incident affected the MySpace website, eventually taking the whole site offline.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Samy Kamkar EP 61 Details

“the whole site is down; the whole team is here working on it”