That's not cool. Can't stand hackers. Lock em up.
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: If you attempted to access the Sesame Street website over the
: weekend, you might have noticed that the site seemed to be
: brought to you by the letters X, X and X.
:
: Hackers took over the show's YouTube page over the weekend and
: replaced kid-friendly videos with pornography, prompting
: moderators to shut the section down on Sunday "due to
: repeated or severe violations of our community guidelines"
: and to issue an apology.
:
: "Our channel was compromised and we are presently working
: with YouTube/Google to restore our original content,"
: Sesame Workshop said in a statement. "We always strive to
: provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to
: resolve this problem quickly."
:
: None of the videos posted by the hackers actually featured the
: puppets from the long-running children's series, although one
: message beside the videos asked, "Who doesn't like porn
: kids?"
:
: The offensive content, some of which ran as long as eight
: minutes, was up for a total of 22 minutes before Google became
: aware of the violation and shut it down. As of Monday morning,
: sesamestreet.org's video section was back up and running.
:
: "Right? Everyone loves it," the message continued.
: "I'm MrEdxwx and my partner MrSuicider91 are here to bring
: you many nice content! Please don't let Sesame Street to get
: this account back kids :-( Please...let me and MrSuicider91 have
: it and we gonna make all the America happy!"
:
: The real Mr.Edxwx took to his YouTube account to deny the
: claims, saying that he is "an honest YouTuber" who
: works "hard to make quality gameplay videos" and
: respects community guidelines.
:
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