New York - News Corp.'s MySpace has agreed to share the identities of around 7,000 registered sex offenders whose profiles it has deleted from the site with Attorneys General in eight states who had requested the information.

The attorneys general of Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Connecticut last week requested information on the thousands of sex offenders found to have created MySpace profiles.

The company had initially said it would be illegal to share private member data, citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, but last week worked out a system for handing over such information to law enforcement.

MySpace partnered with Sentinel Tech Holdings last year to create a national database of sex offenders, and cross reference sex offender registries against its member base.

"We have zero tolerance for sex offenders," Fox Interactive Media general counsel Mike Angus told Reuters. "After spending a year meeting with AGs, we figured that if we were to move quickly, we had to build it ourselves."

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