YouTube Hack Fest Claims Its Next Victim: Microsoft

Exactly one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was hacked, with children’s videos replaced with porn, another major brand has fallen victim to YouTube hackers—Microsoft.

Exactly one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was hacked, with children’s videos replaced with porn, another major brand has fallen victim to YouTube hackers—Microsoft.  Microsoft’s YouTube channel was hacked on Sunday afternoon.  All of the videos were taken down from the site and personal videos were uploaded, asking viewers to submit content, including background images, for the channel.

The strange thing in this case was that the hacker claimed to not be a hacker at all. 

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