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Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hacked

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 23 Oct 2011 11:00 User comments (4)

Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hacked

Hackers got the best of Microsoft's popular YouTube channel this weekend.
The channel, which has 8 million views and over 25,000 subscribers, had 5 videos posted to it and now sits blank.

Posted to the channel by the hacker earlier in the day was the message "I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/."

Says Microsoft of the situation:

We are aware that someone has altered the YouTube channel devoted to Microsoft videos. We are working with YouTube to rectify the situation.

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4 user comments

124.10.2011 02:24
jabbur ali
Unverified new user

i want 2 amke a youtube id like a won family so.........

224.10.2011 09:01

wha?

Quote:
i want 2 amke a youtube id like a won family so.........

324.10.2011 10:39

ROFL...Microsoft has a YouTube channel? Isn't that a bit like the US government buying billboards in Cuba?

424.10.2011 11:26

Originally posted by KillerBug:
ROFL...Microsoft has a YouTube channel? Isn't that a bit like the US government buying billboards in Cuba?
Something like that :P

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