Microsoft's YouTube Channel Got Hacked
Just one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was targeted, Microsoft's corporate channel seems to have fallen victim to some cyber tomfoolery.
Microsoft's YouTube channel was left without content on Sunday after a third party gained access to the account and removed all of the company's video. CNet reports that in their place were several short clips attempting to gather subscribers and a message that read "I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/" The Register reports that there were also some cartoon videos uploaded to the channel.
Microsoft later confirmed that it had lost control of the account for a period of time but was once again back at the helm and working to restore content.
"We have regained control of the Microsoft channel on YouTube, and we are working to restore all of the original content," a company representative told CNet. "We will continue to work with YouTube to ensure safeguards are in place for the future."
Things have been running smoothly since, and Microsoft's videos are all back up and running on its channel. However, the mystery of who gained access to the account and why remains. There's a certain amount of speculation from YouTube users commenting on Microsoft's page that the channel was once owned by someone else entirely, someone who registered in 2006, but that the handle was passed over to Microsoft by YouTube staff at some point. If this is the case, the credentials were obviously not properly changed, because the old user could still log in and out, upload and pull videos, and change settings such as the background. Neither Microsoft nor YouTube have commented on these rumors.
- Wikileaks Going Broke, Forced to Suspend Leaks
- Microsoft Gets Royalties from 55% of the Android Ecosystem
- Google Music May Launch With Only 2 Labels This Week
- Siri (Sort of) Ported to Jailbroken iPads
- Steve Jobs Was on a Mission to Destroy Android
- Scientists Have Created a Working Biofuel Battery
- 10 Years and 320M Units Later, the iPod is Slowing Down
- Designer Creates 8-Bit Pixel Clothing
- iPhone 4S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II in a Drop Test
- Android 4.0 ICS Will Support USB Controllers
- Going Ears-on With the Modern Warfare 3 Munitio Billets 9mm
- Report: Apple is Working on an Actual HDTV
- These Are Nokia's Lumia 800 and 710 Windows Phones
- Rockstar Teases Trailer for New Grand Theft Auto Title
- Analyst: ICS Does Not Solve Android's Main Problem
- Gamer Dad Attacks Teen After CoD Black Ops Heckling
- Inflatable Wind Turbine Can Be Used As Digital Billboard
- Man Installs Smartphone Dock in His Prosthetic Arm
- Volkswagen Still Recommends Internet Explorer 6
What you can comment in Tom's Guide now.. What a world what a world!!
so microsoft stole from a youtube user. what else is new?
okay it was youtube's fault mostly. but why didn't they set the credentials right? may be google wanted microsoft to get hassled because of the android patent war.
If the person who did this was indeed the previous account holder and if their login still worked then I hardly see this as a act of hacking. I also certainly cannot support the previous account holder's actions as it was obvious that they would lose the account due to the use of the name alone at some point.
But never fear, trust cloud storage and computing, they will protect your stuff.
Heh. And people wonder why I'm so anal about using the cloud for my personal shit?
You guys realize this has jack to do with the cloud right? Nevermind. You already know this is a completely separate auth system used by consumers. It's still popular to bash MS almost a decade after they got their crap together and most people stopped wearing mullets.
so microsoft stole from a youtube user. what else is new? okay it was youtube's fault mostly. but why didn't they set the credentials right? may be google wanted microsoft to get hassled because of the android patent war.
Maybe the account was still tied to the user's email address that it was created with?
....and somewhere from the offices of Larry Page and Sergey Brin people could hear muffled laughter.
You guys realize this has jack to do with the cloud right? Nevermind. You already know this is a completely separate auth system used by consumers. It's still popular to bash MS almost a decade after they got their crap together and most people stopped wearing mullets.
You do realize that if this happened with YouTube it can happen to the cloud too right? One oversight and people lose access to their account or lose their stuff, so while this isn't the "cloud" it is still a concern since these are the companies that will control the cloud and all it's data.
What you can comment in Tom's Guide now.. What a world what a world!!
It seems that if I login here I still have to login again at tomshardware. Odd...
Heh. And people wonder why I'm so anal about using the cloud for my personal shit?
There's nothing to worry about - just put all your files in a bunch of 7-zip AES-256 encrypted files and upload it to the cloud (use file splitting if needed), and that way if your HDD crashes and you don't have a backup onsite or your house is wiped out at least you still have the files online. That's what I do with my important documents.
I find it hard to believe that the previous owner simply logged into his/her old account. Google would have taken care of this before they handed control over to Microsoft.