Despite falling out of vogue years past, MySpace – that old forerunner to Facebook – has details on more user accounts than the Usa has individuals. And a significant hunk of those account qualifications has been leaked to the whole Internet, in a humbling reminder the Matchbox Twenty-divine username you likely made in high school continues to be worth a heck of a lot to offenders and businesses.

The leak contains passwords, email addresses and usernames that were swiped from MySpace in a hack before a website redesign that closed some security differences was made by MySpace, dating back to June 2013.

In a blog post, MySpace said it is disabled the affected passwords that nobody can use the qualifications that were leaked to obtain unauthorized access to accounts.

But opportunities are at least some of these reports had not been touched for years. The cause this makes you exposed is the same rationale pros say you should not use the same username and password for every online service – it makes it simple to take one set of stolen qualifications and plug them into others, possibly getting access to the whole portfolio of your digital life.

Not only does it possibly reduce the amount of qualifications you must recall (though hopefully you are solving that by using a password manager, right?), but it helps limit your vulnerability to hackers. By altering the qualifications in your old statements and disassociating them from the present day you, you help make sure none of your other Internet identities are set in danger.