{"id":1481,"date":"2010-07-05T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2010-07-05T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:41:05","slug":"youtube-and-itunes-hacked-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/youtube-and-itunes-hacked-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube and iTunes Hacked Over The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both YouTube and iTunes were reportedly hacked over the weekend. \u00a0On the YouTube side, Justin Bieber videos seemed to take the brunt of it. \u00a0The hackers used a hole in YouTube&#8217;s commenting section to inject HTML into YouTube pages, displaying popups and links to porn and malware sites. \u00a0YouTube patched the hole in a couple of hours, but it&#8217;s estimated that thousands of pages were affected.<\/p>\n<p>On the iTunes side, hackers were a bit more nasty. \u00a0It seems stolen\/hacked iTunes accounts were used to make large purchases from the iTunes store&#8230;with some iTunes users reportedly being charged for hundreds of dollars of unauthorized purchases. \u00a0In a twist, the hackers seemed to do this to bump up the rankings of certain apps and ebooks in iTunes. \u00a0Apple&#8217;s response seemed on-par with their recent responses to complaining iPad and iPhone users; they told the iTunes users to change their passwords and credit card numbers&#8230;while offering no official statement and no other form of help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both YouTube and iTunes were reportedly hacked over the weekend. \u00a0On the YouTube side, Justin Bieber videos seemed to take the brunt of it. \u00a0The hackers used a hole in YouTube&#8217;s commenting section to inject HTML into YouTube pages, displaying popups and links to porn and malware sites. \u00a0YouTube patched the hole in a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[610,609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}