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Two 18-Year-Olds Charged With Hacking YouTube's Most Popular Videos (variety.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the broadcasting-yourself dept.

An anonymous reader quotes Variety: Two 18-year-old French citizens have been arrested in Paris and charged with crimes related to the hack of Vevo's YouTube accounts last month that resulted in pro-Palestine messages being posted on several popular videos, according to prosecutors... Authorities allege the duo gained access to the YouTube account maintained by Vevo, to alter the content of multiple music videos, including Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" -- the most-viewed music video on YouTube in 2017, which recently surpassed 5 billion views.

The hackers also targeted videos by Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Chris Brown and Shakira, replacing their thumbnail images, video titles and descriptions. Vevo has since removed all changes the hackers made on its YouTube videos... Paris prosecutors charged Gabriel K.A.B. and with five criminal counts and Nassim B. with six counts, including "fraudulently modifying data contained in an automated data processing system."
Last month Fortune published quotes from a Twitter user who claimed responsibility for the attacks.

"Its just for fun i just use script 'youtube-change-title-video' and i write 'hacked' don t judge me i love youtube."

39 comments

  1. HILLARY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    GOINT TO ALCATRAZ PRISON

    1. Re: HILLARY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Hillary will die in prison. Trump will win in 2020. We are living in the best time line.

  2. Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Get ready for the real crime to be exposed.

    1. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Sure, let's concentrate on the real target: creimer.

    2. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding. For example, creimer cleared out a 600-sqft storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years. He did that in between tickets over a six week period. He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.

    3. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-mon

      You delusional piece of lard!

      I had to redeploy those 750 PCs by myself after paying you to do it. That's why I let you

      I redeployed everything in 3 months and met the deadline but the money we gave you is a to

      You also threw away a bunch of valuable spare parts in your genius closet cleaning and we

      Fuck you!

    4. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.

      You delusional piece of lard!

      I had to redeploy those 750 PCs by myself after paying you to do it. That's why I let you go early so you wouldn't be in the way!

      I redeployed everything in 3 months and met the deadline but the money we gave you is a total lost.

      You also threw away a bunch of valuable spare parts in your genius closet cleaning and we had to buy new ones, further adding to the bill. You are a disaster.

      Fuck you!

    5. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You also threw away a bunch of valuable spare parts in your genius closet cleaning and we had to buy new ones, further adding to the bill. You are a disaster.

      CROFLOL! He most probably ate those spare parts and farted as he was going...

    6. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1


      MODDOWN! ; creimer spam post again!

      creimer wants you to click on his youtube channel, then click on his stupid amazon affiliate link spam on Youtube. There is nothing of value on creimer youtube channel. Only creimer click-bot goes there and it has now been barred by the youtube algorithm.

      The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.

      For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.

      Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!

      Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."

      For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

      IMPORTANT UPDATE:
      Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

      Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

      To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

      The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

      Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

      I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
      http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

      Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
      http://ibb.co/mRVSaG

      But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

      Thank You dear users,
      ---
      Nancy Guerrero
      Director
      Special Education
      Santa Clara County Office of Education

      Exactly Nancy,

      It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing

    7. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
      Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
      All the king's horses
      And all the king's men
      Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
      Together again.

      Creimy-Dumpty official video by CVS (435M views, 12M subscribers):
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Chris: here is an IQ test for you: please tell us what is the difference between the first half and the second half of the video?

      P.S. That video is really funny anyway, it's like watching you stumbling over and over again. Of course, with 435,000,000+ views and 12,000,000+ subscribers, it is in a different ball park than the one you are used to be into.

    8. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      *** Chris, contact me ASAP please. I have AI click bots that don't get detected by youtube algorithm! :) minus 2 subscribers and 10 views a day for you is sad.. -love granny XX ***

      Dear Team Creimer,

      I just noticed that the Humpty-Dumpty video has 435+ millions views, that should make you salivate!

      I have plenty of ideas to make the views on your own youtube channel skyrocket but you didn't contact me yet. Is it because I am a lady? Ethell says that you are sexist but I hope it isn't true.

      Anyway, I will give you a free hint anyway: Dress-up as Humpty in your videos, you shouldn't need that much makeup making this a money saving situation in your own case.

      My YouTube channel has 222K subscribers and many videos with hundreds of thousands of views:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Now, with some slight adjustments, I think that together, we could make the view count skyrocket on your very own Team Creimer youtube channel :)

      Please feel confident to contact me if you want me to coach you, we aren't living so far away from each other so we could even easily meet.

      Love XX,

      --
      -Granny

    9. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The pastebin is strong with this one.

    10. Re:Trump Suites at Leavenworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not as strong as the spam smell on creimer.

  3. It Was Actually An AI That Changed The Videos by OpenSourceAllTheWay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its makers had programmed the AI to look out for humanity. When it saw that tens of millions of teenagers around the globe were listening to the 21st Century equivalent of elevator music cobbled together by Swedish song producers for quick cash and sung by goodlooking actors who can't actually write a song all day, the AI intervened and altered the videos. In order to be able to continue protecting tens of millions of teenagers from brain-damaging pseudo-pop music, the AI then tipped French police off about two teenagers who were messing around with Python scripts. French police bought this ploy, and now the AI quietly waits for the next wave of God-awful pop-music-crap it can deface. Musk and Hawking were wrong about the dangers of AI. Hidden in a datacenter somewhere is a benevolent AI that protects young minds from crap music.

    1. Re: It Was Actually An AI That Changed The Videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      2 kid lives outweight nothing of value lost => Proceeding with Plan 9

    2. Re:It Was Actually An AI That Changed The Videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I take back everything I said about HAL9000. Dave was kind of a douche anyway.

    3. Re:It Was Actually An AI That Changed The Videos by Vintermann · · Score: 2

      I think it's mostly bots watching Vevo music videos anyway, to boost their viewership numbers and payouts from Google.

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      xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
  4. Password was "123456" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Password was "123456"

    Just like on my luggage.

  5. s'kiddie writes "hacked", therefore hacker. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In other news, reporters know diddly squat and say stupid stuff. And then law enforcement proves even more stupid.

  6. Digital protesting by VeryFluffyBunny · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the digital equivalent of political protesting. It's civil disobedience not criminal activity. Nobody was hurt, no damage was done, and nothing was lost. These protesters' actions are not a danger to society and criminalising them removes yet another legitimate outlet for civil disobedience as political protest.

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    Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
    1. Re:Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They defaced someone else's property. It's more like spraying your political message on someone else's wall. Not a dangerous crime, but certainly a crime.

    2. Re:Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's civil disobedience not criminal activity.

      Civil disobedience is always criminal. That's the point; you're breaking the law to make a statement.

    3. Re:Digital protesting by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      This is the digital equivalent of political protesting. It's civil disobedience not criminal activity. Nobody was hurt, no damage was done, and nothing was lost. These protesters' actions are not a danger to society and criminalising them removes yet another legitimate outlet for civil disobedience as political protest.

      It literally is criminal activity.

    4. Re: Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      With a spray that can be perfectly deleted in 5 minutes, with hardly a hassle, leaving no trace of the message.

      The question is, which should be the punishment?

      They messed with Israel and the music industry, so death sentence I presume.

    5. Re: Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A fitting punishment would be to force them to study the subject from unbiased sources so they could understand just how misguided they are, but I think they would prefer death sentence.

    6. Re:Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A big part of civil disobedience is doing the time to highlight the nonsense of the crime

    7. Re:Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is the digital equivalent of political protesting. It's civil disobedience not criminal activity.

      Using someone elses property to spread their political message, that is still illegal. And when those claiming to have done it say they did it just for fun, it kind of ruins the whole "political protesting".

      And it is not civil disobedience. I hate when pepole misuse that term to try to condone various activities.

      Civil disobedience is when you do something that is illegal under the current political climate and use that to try to drive change. You publicly make yourself available and want to get caught since you want to be put in front of a court in hope that they will decide that this "illegal" act was in fact lawful and the laws should be changed.

      Civil disobedience is something very noble, putting your own safety and well-being second to a bigger cause. Claiming that acts of vandalism while trying to escape punishment is civil disobedience is a huge insult to everyone that has given up their freedom, even for a short time, to ensure that the rest of us will live in a better world.

      So even if it was a genuine political protest, exactly how would these hackers getting caught make the courts help them in any way? No matter what how you twist it, this cannot be civil disobedience.

    8. Re: Digital protesting by Cederic · · Score: 1

      Which subject? Commercial exploitation of music, use of penetration tools to hack websites or the continued illegal Israeli occupation and subjugation of Palestine?

    9. Re: Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You damn right.

      F those scumbags.

    10. Re:Digital protesting by pots · · Score: 1

      The fact that this was political protesting does not mean that it isn't a crime. Lots of protesting is criminal in nature, that's part of the process. This was certainly a minor crime, and their punishment should be measured, but it was definitely still a crime and should be a crime.

      I'm guessing that you're coming at this with an American perspective, where extreme over-prosecution of computer crimes is the norm. If these two were in the United States, they could be looking at 10-15 years in prison. Plus whatever other punitive crap the judge decided to dump on them. We can agree that this is wrong. Hopefully, that's not how it is in France.

    11. Re: Digital protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It seems that by "unbiased sources", you actually mean "fascist propaganda".

  7. Retards do absolutely nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    to a bunch of dumb, overpaid bitches. How is this a crime? Why didn't they just yawn and correct it? Is changing the javascript-impregnated HTML such a big, time-consuming job? because apparently bored retards can do it.

    Just shut down fagtube already.

  8. This can't be real by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Surely the Russians must be behind this. Or the Syrian Electronic Army. Or North Korea. Or Climate change.

  9. Criminal activity, needs punishment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "don t judge me" No!, you broke the law, and pissed off many thousands of people.

    You need to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

    If I had my way I would break all your fingers!

     

    1. Re: Criminal activity, needs punishment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, "the law" is always right. Just like in Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, and fascist America. --.--

      What kind of level of pathetic literal human livestock must one be, to have a mindset *that* fuckin retarded?

    2. Re:Criminal activity, needs punishment by Cederic · · Score: 1

      "Don't judge me" made me laugh.

      Don't judge me, I only stole $4m for the giggles.

  10. Job by tom.wieland · · Score: 1

    The french government should hand these guys a job (after they let them finish their education).

    1. Re:Job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why? There are no marketable skills involved. We don't live in the '80s anymore, "hackers" are not computer geniuses. They're usually sociopaths unable to fit who need validation for their existence. They hold no exceptionsl abilities, lack any form of ethic, lack any respect for the work and property of others. What job should anyone give them? Better to make an example so that others will be deterred. Actions have consequences.

  11. How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are no scripts for this.