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

Posted by BeauHD on from the obnoxious-hacking dept.

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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  1. Hack by psergiu · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Hack"

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

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  2. Nice! by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Link the 11-yr-old breach reporter.

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  3. Hacking Hacks by ArylAkamov · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. publicity by kwoff · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

  5. Re:All of these are applicable by amicusNYCL · · Score: 2

    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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