Who's fault is the mess on Youtube?
By Gina on October 25, 2011 | Computer Security, Microsoft’s YouTube channel hacked, hacker, computer security, microsoft's youtube, youtube channel, malicious videos
Microsoft’s YouTube channel has been hacked. Hackers removed company’s videos and replaced them with malicious ones.
Those rogue videos are three or four seconds long that are inviting users to post video responses, create new background images for the channel or provide sponsorship. Another example of hacked video is so called “Bingo” video which shows an animated character from "LA Noire" videogame by Rockstar Games, shooting another character in the head. A message posted on the channel reads: "I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/"
This hack is not solved yet, so there is no information about how hackers managed to gain control of Microsoft's YouTube account. One YouTube user gave an explanation of how the account was most likely hacked:
This is how he "hacked" the channel:
He lightly made the account Microsoft when youtube wasn't that big but the REAL Microsoft probably asked Youtube to disable it and give it to them. The flaw is that this account was probably still linked to this kid's email and Microsoft forgot to change it or whatever.
So all this kid had to do was recover this account using his old email.
Not that hard. That’s probably how the other big Channels got "hacked".
Thumbs this up so people can see!
This attack came after the hackers broke into the Sesame Street YouTube channel and replaced child content with pornographic videos and movies.
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