14 DAY TRIAL // The Youtube account of Sesame Street was hacked on Sunday, the masterminds replacing the child-friendly videos with adult content that could have really marked the fragile mind of a youth.
Luckily, the issue was fixed by the website in a matter of minutes and hopefully not many got to watch the illegal videos.
The page's visitors could read the following message being posted as the channel's description:
Who doesn't love [reference to adult content] kids? right! everyone loves it! im 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!
According to Graham Cluley, MrEdxwx, the member's name that was posted along with the clips, quickly acted on cleaning his reputation.
“I did not hack Sesame Street. I am an honest Youtuber. I work hard to make quality gameplay videos AND MOST IMPORTANT I RESPECT THE COMMUNITY GUIDELINES,” read his video reply.
CNET revealed that Youtube representatives failed to comment the incident but they claimed to have removed the content because it was violating the guidelines.
"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit graphic content. As always, we remove inappropriate material as soon as we are made aware of it," stated a spokesperson.
Webmasters should be more aware of the harm this sort of unfortunate events could cause to the young viewers and they should deploy better security measures. Youtube passwords are hard to actually crack so probably, this was a result of a phishing campaign or a weak password that was set to guard the channel.
Finally, some might agree with hacktivists for trying to make the world a better place with their online protests, but no one can condone with such operations which are probably launched just for fun.