{"id":36706,"date":"2011-10-24T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=36706"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:47:28","slug":"microsoft-youtube-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/36706-microsoft-youtube-account-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft YouTube account hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by Mashable<strong>,<\/strong> four advertising-themed videos were uploaded to the <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363498-YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> account, followed by a video titled \u201cGarry\u2019s Mod \u2013 Escape the Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The videos were pulled from the channel shortly after they were uploaded, and since then the channel has been blanked out. There is no channel description, no videos, and the channels country has been changed to the United Kingdom and the hometown is now, \u201cHey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While it not clear how Microsoft\u2019s account was hacked, a message previously posted to the channel reads, \u201cI DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :\/.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft hack follows last week\u2019s hack of the Sesame Street YouTube channel, where the hacker <a title=\"Hardcore Porn on Sesame street YouTube channel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/36256-hardcore-porn-on-sesame-street-youtube-channel.html\">replaced content on the channel<\/a> with hardcore porn.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"PC Mag news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2395156,00.asp#fbid=HPb-Uim9ZAU\" target=\"_blank\">PCMag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s YouTube account has been hacked, with all content erased from their channel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[461,5984,123,201,2150],"class_list":["post-36706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-hacking","tag-mashable","tag-microsoft","tag-porn","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36708,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706\/revisions\/36708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}