YouTube and Justin Bieber's Website Hacked! [NEWS]

In an undeniably funny series of circumstances, a collection of popular websites were 'hacked' by an anonymous group (Perhaps we could call them 'Internet terrorists'?) as America celebrated the 4th of July. Recently, fingers have started to point at a site named '4Chan' as the group behind the attacks. Another theory states that the website 'Ebaumsworld' have something to do with the events. It is thought that the 4th of July was an ideal time for an attack of this nature as this was a day where Internet security was likely to 'lapse'

Among the sites that were hacked were YouTube (Due to a bug in the video scripting people were able to alter the makeup of the YouTube videos page so that unsuspecting viewers searching for a 'fat man doing the moonwalk'(for example) were forwarded to various, lets say 'crude' websites) Furhtermore, hackers were able to insert a fake warning message on the homepage of YouTube that stated teen singer Justin Bieber had
died in a car crash during the early hours of the morning. Obviously, this wasn't true, but it still caught the Google technical support team with its pants down.



A spokesman for google stated "We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability [which allows hackers to place code into a site] on YouTube.com that was discovered several hours ago. Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour, and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We're continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future"

Luckily for YouTube, the Google team were able to remove the bug on the video-sharing site within a matter of hours,after receiving an onslaught of complaints from angry and confused Internet users. Still, not everybody was safe from the attacks so quickly, were they Mr. Justin Bieber?

Yes, Bieber was also targeted directly by hackers, with his website being taken over in hilarious fashion. A poll on Bieber's website featured a question that asked viewers where they felt he should tour next. Creative hackers managed to alter the poll so North Korea flew to the number 1 suggested location, with just under 500,000 votes being cast for this option. Israel followed in the number 2 spot.

You've got to admire their creativity, haven't you?