Last week, MySpace was in a center of a controversy as eight US attorneys general demanded the company hand over information about offenders from among MySpace's 175 million profiles.

In a letter, the attorneys general asked MySpace to provide information on how many registered sex offenders are using the site, and where they live. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper signed the letter, along with attorneys general from Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The social-networking site responded it would not hand over the required information without a search warrant since that would violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But shortly after MySpace announced it had removed the profiles of thousands of convicted sex offenders from its website.

Today, MySpace agreed to provide to the Multi-State Attorney General Executive Committee valuable information on registered sex offenders.

In order to indentify and delete the profiles from its website, MySpace has used a software called Sentinel SAFE.

According to MySpace, the software program developed in 2006 by Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. and implemented on May2, 2007, uses a range of informational factors, aggregated from a maze of state sex offender registries to identify registered sex offenders, after which their profiles are immediately deleted.

“We have zero tolerance for sexual predators on MySpace and took the initiative to create this first of its kind tool ourselves because nothing previously existed. We look forward to working collaboratively with the Attorneys General on all future efforts to make the Internet a safer place for teens,” said Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer, MySpace. “We will continue to promote legislation requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses so they can be kept off social networking sites in the first place and urge other social networking sites to join our lead and implement technologies designed to keep predators away from younger users.”

Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said in a statement that there are "at least" 5,000 registered sex offenders with MySpace profiles who pose "an immediate, urgent risk to children."

"I am pleased that MySpace has heeded our demand, now by subpoena, to provide information about convicted sex offenders and confirm steps to remove them from the site," Blumenthal said.