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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.
"Hack"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Link the 11-yr-old breach reporter.
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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.
Thanks for giving them the publicity that they rightfully deserve. Or being typical media click bait.
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.
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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.
Gonna be a hoot when they include themselves in their "Top 10 entertainment hacks" video.
Table-ized A.I.
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.
He asked first.
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.
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.
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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
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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 /.
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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...
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
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 [...]
And now, "Top 10 Hacks of All Time, Youtube Edition" on watchmojo.com
So, a hack from a hack while riding a hack maybe?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?