![]() YouTube has now fully reverted all titles and descriptions of my videos. UPDATE #1 – 9:30 PM (Pacific Time) April 01, 2017:Īt approximately 9:30 PM pacific time (April 01, 2017) the hackers sent an email to people on Omnia Media’s email list, so it is possible they obtained email addresses of many YouTubers. Given that a very large amount of content creators is partnered through a network and not with YouTube directly this could cripple a huge part of the website. Imagine a bigger network like BroadbandTV (230.000+ partners) or Fullscreen (54.000+ partners) getting hacked like this. They do not need and should not possess this power. A handful of videos on other channels are fixed but it’s unclear if the creators changed them on their own or if YouTube did.Īll of this begs the question why YouTube networks can change video details in the first place. 6 hours after the hack none of my videos have been fixed yet. Most of these channels are well established and have been around for several years – so they have produced a large number of videos (many thousands on some). Given that so many videos were hit at once it remains to be seen how swiftly YouTube will handle this. So at least they have backups and can roll back the metadata. According to a tweet by Omnia Media, YouTube is actively working on restoring the video titles and descriptions.Playlist names, channel names and video tags are not affected.Everything should be fine once it gets fixed and the channels can keep posting videos. All creators (including myself) still have access to their YouTube channels and social media.An employee of Omnia Media confirmed to me that no personal data of us YouTubers was leaked during the attack. The hackers did not obtain the passwords of these channels. None of the channels were compromised or hacked directly. ![]() ![]() According to the video description that the hackers left behind, the goal may have been to showcase a security flaw with the current system.Again, the API allows a third party, Omnia Media, to alter video details and this hack demonstrates how dangerous this is. It seems like a security exploit with the YouTube API and neither Omnia Media nor YouTube adequately secured their systems against such attacks.None of the 1100 partners with “affiliate” status were affected. Out of Omnia Media’s roughly 1400 partners only 300 have the “managed” status. Explanation: there are “managed” partners and “affiliates”. From there they had access to videos of all managed partners and could bulk edit them. ![]()
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