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Youtube Hacked - Justin Bieber dies
Ricardo Trejo
During the 4th of July holiday weekend, in a coincidental double whammy, while iTunes was having problems of its own, Youtube had a comment vulnerability exposed which in turn made a million Bieber fangirls scream in horror, thinking that their teen idol had died - or so that’s what a pop up on Youtube told them.
This is the best screenshot we could find
The pre-teen scare apparently was the result of a exposed hack within the comments area, where users could insert HTML code (regularly not allowed) to cause all kinds of havoc. Everything from pop-ups to redirects to porn and malware sites, and of course the unfortunate Bieber incident, was fair game. However, almost immediately, Google disabled comments while they swiftly patched up the issue to the sighs of 4chan users everywhere who had willingly taken responsibility of the attack.
So how was your 4th of July weekend?
