Microsoft's YouTube Channel Hacked

Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hacked earlier today and all of the content removed. Details of the hacking are sketchy, ranging from a publicity stunt by Microsoft, a disgruntled ex-employee, to the original owner of the URL reclaiming his site through a backdoor left open by Microsoft.

The attack comes just a week after hackers broke into the Sesame Street YouTube channel, and replaced its child-friendly content with hardcore pornographic movies.

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At least this cloud storage stuff is reliable.

Yeah, right, Microsoft would have left some stranger's email alias in their YouTube profile, or the "obvious suspicion" that some employee carried a Post-It with the YouTube password on it, that seems very likely.
Journalists and bloggers, when you don't have a clue, don't invent stupid theories to make us waste our time.

EXACTLY!

Publicity stuny = free advertising for Microsoft, that's pretty solid. If they profit off of this?

I mean, if I look up pages/articles about Norton, Norton Anti-Virus will sometimes be displayed in the ads.... the ads find relevance, and such based on what the articles are usually about. So if you have tons of tech blogs and such (like this one) reporting about this and Microsoft is mentioned in it..... more sales, for FREE, right?

Greene420 said:

EXACTLY!

Publicity stuny = free advertising for Microsoft, that's pretty solid. If they profit off of this?

I mean, if I look up pages/articles about Norton, Norton Anti-Virus will sometimes be displayed in the ads.... the ads find relevance, and such based on what the articles are usually about. So if you have tons of tech blogs and such (like this one) reporting about this and Microsoft is mentioned in it..... more sales, for FREE, right?

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Yeah, cuz Microsoft is REALLY hurting for sales.

Google did it.

Greene420 said:

EXACTLY!

Publicity stuny = free advertising for Microsoft, that's pretty solid. If they profit off of this?

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So if you have tons of tech blogs and such (like this one) reporting about this and Microsoft is mentioned in it..... more sales, for FREE, right?

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Not really, that 'free'. Microsoft, if they had hundreds of videos uploaded, might have to spend a decent amount on employee wages to force some low-level slacker to sit there nagivating over and over again through the youtube upload forums till all 500+? videos are reuploaded including those videos introduce Microsoft Surface, Table, Speech-rec, help-videos, etc.

All those videos too will now have '0' hits/views so will be less likely to come up in search results, thus, they might get less-accidental advertisements from people searching for 'ms, microsoft or software' etc.