Welp, Vevo Just Got Hacked. Another day, another multinational video service brought to its knees by a group of rogue hackers with a bone to pick. Vevo, the joint venture between Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Abu Dhabi Media, Warner Music Group, and Alphabet Inc. Google’s parent company), was just hacked. Roughly 3. 1. 2TB worth of internal files have been posted online, and a couple of the documents reviewed by Gizmodo appear sensitive. The Our. Mine hacker squad has claimed responsibility for the breach. The group is well known: They hijacked Wiki. Leaks’ DNS last month shortly after they took over HBO’s Twitter account; last year, they took over Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts; and they hit both Buzz. Feed and Tech. Crunch not long after that. The leaked cache contains a wide variety of office documents, videos, and other promotional materials. Based on a cursory review, a majority of the files seemed pretty mild—weekly music charts, pre- planned social media content, and various details about the artists under the record companies’ management. But not all of the material was quite so benign. Vevo’s UK office will probably want to get this alarm code changed as soon as possible: Our. Mine typically hacks people because, well, it can. The group’s primary goal is demonstrating to companies that they have weak security. In this case, the hackers managed to compromise an employee account for Okta, the single sign- on workplace app. The most notable conspiracy theory was floated by neo-Nazi hacker Weev, who said that he had hacked Kessler’s account. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer. The build quality was decent, the options and amenities put it in a near-luxury class—hell, this car was Buick’s flagship model from 2006-2011! Joe has had a tough run. Last year, he lost his job and, subsequently, his apartment, along with his car. But things are looking up and he needs an affordable and. ![]() Another day, another multinational video service brought to its knees by a group of rogue hackers with a bone to pick. Vevo, the joint venture between Universal Music. Usually they don’t resort to leaking large caches of files—at least to our knowledge—but in this case it sounds like someone may have pissed them off. In a post late Thursday, Our. Mine claimed it leaked Vevo’s files after reaching out to one of the company’s employees and being told to “fuck off.” But they informed Gizmodo by email: “If they asked us to remove the files then we will.”Of course, Sony (one of Vevo’s joint owners) fell victim to a devastating hack in 2. Guardians of Peace” dumped a wealth of its confidential data online. US intelligence agencies pinned the breach on North Korea (one of the hacking group’s demands was that Sony pull The Interview, Seth Rogan’s comedy about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong- Un.)According to Business Insider, Vevo locked up nearly $2. Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande helping generate some 2. They might consider spending some of those earnings on beefing up their security. This could’ve been a lot worse. We’ve reached out to Vevo, Sony, Warner, Universal, and Google for comment. We’ll update if we hear anything back. Update 9/1. 5/1. 7 1. ET: Responding to our inquiry, a Vevo spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company “can confirm that Vevo experienced a data breach as a result of a phishing scam via Linkedin. We have addressed the issue and are investigating the extent of exposure.” Additional reporting by Bryan Menegus. Organizer of Neo- Nazi Rally Tweets That Death of Heather Heyer Was 'Payback Time' [Updated]Jason Kessler, the organizer of last weekend’s neo- Nazi rally in Charlottesville and a former contributor to the Daily Caller, tweeted overnight that the death of Heather Heyer was “payback time.” Response in the white nationalist community was mixed, with some distancing themselves from Kessler, others applauding his tweet, and still others floating various conspiracy theories. Kessler’s tweet referred to Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a neo- Nazi in Charlottesville, as a “fat disgusting Communist” and claimed that since Communists had “killed 9. His tweet included a link to the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist site that has been booted by both Go. Daddy and Google and has had a hard time finding a home. The most notable conspiracy theory was floated by neo- Nazi hacker Weev, who said that he had hacked Kessler’s account. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, published a post on the social networking site Gab about two hours after Kessler’s tweet, taking credit for the hateful message. But Weev is known for making outlandish claims and so far there’s been no evidence presented to substantiate the claim that he hacked Kessler. Other white supremacists who attended the rally in Charlottesville, like Richard Spencer, said that they would no longer associate with Kessler. Spencer, who was a mentor to Trump White House advisor Stephen Miller at Duke University, came to prominence after leading a neo- Nazi rally in November of 2. Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”“Hail victory” is English for the German Nazi slogan “sieg heil.”White supremacist Baked Alaska, who also attended the rally and posted video of himself shouting “hail victory,” also sought to distance himself from Kessler, disavowing “actual racial hatred.” Baked Alaska’s real name is Tim Gionet. It’s not clear what Gionet means by the tweet, as marching in a neo- Nazi rally seems to be the very definition of “spewing actual racial hatred.” Gionet has seemingly been much more open to the cause of non- violence since getting maced at the rally in Charlottesville, but not open enough to denounce the cause of white supremacy. He also doesn’t seem to understand that things like Holocaust denial and retweeting “Hitler did nothing wrong,” is itself a call to violence. But there was a broad mix of responses to Kessler’s tweet on Gab, the social network of choice for white supremacists who’ve been banned from Twitter. Some on the network insisted that Kessler’s tweet was proof that he’s actually a “paid plant” controlled by the US government to make white supremacists look bad. Some so- called alt- right activists have said that Kessler is a secret Barack Obama supporter and even wanted Hillary Clinton to win, basically the worst things you can say in the white supremacist community about other neo- Nazis. Others said that Heather Heyer herself was some kind of government agent. Several white supremacists insisted that anyone distancing themselves from Kessler were cucks and traitors to the cause of white nationalism. The term cucks has been popularized in the Trump- supporting community as a derivative of “cuckold” and is meant to be a derogatory term for other conservatives. One alt- right You. Tube and podcasting personality, Tara Mc. Carthy, said on Gab that she understood why some people would “lay low” for the time being, but hinted that the idea of disavowing the cause made one a traitor. Gizmodo has reached out to Jason Kessler for comment and will update this post if we hear back. Heather Heyer couldn’t be reached for comment because she was killed by a neo- Nazi terrorist. Update, 7: 4. 8am ET: Jason Kessler has now deleted the tweet, but has not responded to Gizmodo’s request for comment. Update, 7: 5. 5am ET: Kessler just tweeted, apologizing for the tweet about Heather Heyer and claiming that he was hacked last night. We have yet to see any evidence to confirm or deny whether Kessler was hacked, but he has previous used the term “payback time” in tweets from June 1. And platforming militantly anti- white academics from #UVA. Now its payback time. The #altright & right wing will have its day to speak.”He also tweeted about the Unite the Right rally using the tweet above. Update, 8: 0. 4am ET: And now Kessler just deleted his tweet saying he was hacked for some reason. But I got a screenshot. I still haven’t heard from Kessler directly. Update, 1. 0: 4. 9am ET: Kessler just sent out two tweets where he no longer claims that he was hacked and instead blames his tweets about Heather Heyer on stress and a combination of alcohol, sleep medication, and anti- anxiety drugs. Update, 1. 2: 5. 4pm ET: It appears that Jason Kessler has either deactivated or permanently deleted his Twitter account. I’ve uploaded screenshots above for all the tweets that were previously embedded.
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