Internet Trolls Hack Popular YouTube Channel WatchMojo (csoonline.com)

An anonymous reader writes: WatchMojo, one of the most popular channels of YouTube with over 12 million subscribers, has been hacked. Subscribers of one of YouTube's most popular channels, WatchMojo, were greeted with an unusual surprise on Wednesday evening, as a couple of hackers, known only as Obnoxious and Pein, hacked the lineup of the channel's videos. The two hackers then proceeded to rename almost all of WatchMojo's videos with the title "HACKED BY OBNOXIOUS AND PEIN twitter.com/poodlecorp." Since the channel was compromised, the hackers have uploaded two new videos, "Top 5 Facts About the Yakuza," and a video about Neanderthal myths. Apart from these, however, the hackers have not touched anything else on the channel. Though, most of WatchMojo's videos still remain hacked as of writing. The popular channel announced that it is fully aware of the hack. WatchMojo further stated that it has already contacted YouTube about the incident and that it is already starting to fix the changes to its videos.

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Hack

[psergiu]

"Hack"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:Hack

[Woldscum]

Are we still doing #AndNothingOfValueWasLost ?

Re:Hack

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you mean? This was classic old-school hacking in the purest sense of the word.

You know why?

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet the email was watchmojo@gmail.com and the password was "password".

Nice!

[rmdingler]

Link the 11-yr-old breach reporter.

Re:Nice!

[Coren22]

Someone should send that kid a link to a video about video editing...

Hacking Hacks

[ArylAkamov]

Hacks calling themselves hackers hacked their way into a now hacked youtube channel and posted about their hacks on the hacked channel while they were hacking it.

All of these are applicable

[OrangeTide]

hack
            n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge,
                      hacker]
            3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack, hack writer,
                  literary hack]
            6: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag,
                  plug]
            5: kick on the shins

Re:All of these are applicable

[amicusNYCL]

Slashdot really needs to add a feature where if the word "hack" appears in the headline or summary, the first post is always someone saying that this isn't "hacking", with a reply to that post with the dictionary definition of "hack". Might as well just automate this process to save people the time of writing out the comments every time "hack" appears in a story.

And, yes, I realize you left out the relevant definition.

Re:All of these are applicable

[pigsycyberbully]

hack verb [I or T] to get into someone else's computer system without permission in order to find out information or do something illegal: Computer hacking has become widespread over the last decade. A programmer had managed to hack into some top-secret government data. He claimed they had spied on him and tried to hack his computer. [I or T] to use someone else's phone system without permission, especially to listen to their spoken messages: Police told the actor that his phone had been hacked. English Cambridge Dictionaries.

Re:All of these are applicable

[OrangeTide]

I carefully chose which definitions to show because I thought the usual response would be boring.

Also that guy deserves a kick in the shins.

Re:All of these are applicable

[FatdogHaiku]

I carefully chose which definitions to show because I thought the usual response would be boring.

Also that guy deserves a kick in the shins, from an old or over-worked horse.

FTFY

Re:All of these are applicable

[Coren22]

So, a hack from a hack while riding a hack maybe?

publicity

[kwoff]

Thanks for giving them the publicity that they rightfully deserve. Or being typical media click bait.

Hollywood Hacking == password guessing

[Anonymous Coward]

We used to call this sort of thing "defacing" or just plain "vandalism" when there wasn't any real hacking involved to exploit actual security vulnerabilities. Now any idiot who guesses a password is a "hacker" apparently. I blame Mr Robot. There were too many brute force and dictionary attacks in that stupid show.

Re:Hollywood Hacking == password guessing

[EEPROMS]

I often wonder why they bother defacing servers, especially when most admins have a roll back option that's only a few clicks away. I have seen hackers spend hours defacing game servers etc then within minutes the admin flushed the VM and rolls it back and all that work is like smoke.

Nothing to see here.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this here? This post does not merit any attention.

Re:Nothing to see here.

[bev_tech_rob]

Why is this here? This post does not merit any attention.

Anonymous Cowards posing "why is this here?" questions do not merit any attention either...

Yea, I know I gave some attention...bite me...

Disappointed

[freeze128]

I saw one of those tagged videos this morning. I clicked on the video thinking that it was going to be a discussion about someone getting hacked, and it just turned out to be a stupid Top 10 list.

Re:Disappointed

[Anonymous Coward]

Congrats you just discovered the internet. Where have you been hiding for the last, say 20 years? Clickbait fills now 90% of non-pron content.

Re:Disappointed

[h4ck7h3p14n37]

I noticed those videos the other day while watching some of those stupid top-10 lists about time travelers and things you should never Google. I didn't realize that they were "hacks", just figured they were the usual YouTube fare.

Who?

[Anonymous Coward]

And why as a "nerd" do I give two shits about a YouTube channel?

How far you have fallen... poor /.

Good

[Anonymous Coward]

Those fucking top ten list spammers are fucking ruining youtube.

Top 10 hacks

[Tablizer]

Gonna be a hoot when they include themselves in their "Top 10 entertainment hacks" video.

Re:WatchMojo / AmiMojo

[Kunedog]

He asked first.

RIP in pepperonis

[Anonymous Coward]

PRAY FOR MOJO

The Yakuza

[Ke7dbx]

Ya I saw that. Event watched the Yakuza one and it was not to bad. Kind of surprised we don't see more examples of this being done to other popular channels.

Slashdot is going to get a lot more articles now

[Opportunist]

If we get to read about every YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and whatnot account that gets hacked and "pwned", stay tuned for way, way more articles.

You know, I once read /. because I wanted to read a digest of all the crap that happens in the world, condensed to the stuff that really mattered. If you continue like this, we're going to need a /. for /.

Seriously, editor?

[PJ6]

WatchMojo, one of the most popular channels of YouTube with over 12 million subscribers, has been hacked. Subscribers of one of YouTube's most popular channels, WatchMojo [...]

WatchmyMojo

[Anonymous Coward]

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[WallyL]

And now, "Top 10 Hacks of All Time, Youtube Edition" on watchmojo.com