San Francisco Sep 16 (IANS) Hackers first broke into the multinational video hosting service Vevo and then contacted a Vevo representative with news of the compromise. Irritated by his response they dumped 3.2TB of data on their website that included Vevo s private dossiers on 90 artists including Taylor Swift Ariana Grande One Direction and U2.
According to a report in The Verge on Saturday the hacking group Ourmine leaked data from Vevo after one of the employees was disrespectful to them on LinkedIn.
"According to a screenshot posted by OurMine the group contacted a Vevo representative with news of the compromise only to be met with profanity and disbelief " the report said.
Annoyed by the response OurMine posted 3.1TB data from Vevo s servers on its website. Apart from celebrity artists the data included social-media strategy memos and instructions for disabling the office s alarm system.
The hacking group later deleted the data from their website after "a request from VEVO."
"We 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 " a Vevo spokesperson was quoted as saying.
OurMine has hacked several prominent social media accounts like of Sony s Playstation Football Club (FC) Barcelona s Twitter account HBO Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Google s Sundar Pichai and Twitter s Dick Costolo.
They have also not spared websites like Variety TechCrunch and BuzzFeed.
A report in the Wired in July quoted an anonymous member of the group saying that their string of tech executives embarrassment "is only its way of teaching us all a helpful lesson".
--IANS
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