Unreleased Music Stolen and Sold on Dark Web: Hacker Fined

By Habiba Rashid Failure to comply with the payment within the stipulated three months will result in an additional 18 months of imprisonment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unreleased Music Stolen and Sold on Dark Web: Hacker Fined...

$23 Million YouTube Royalties Scam

Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other peoples music was their own. They successfully stole $23 million before they were caught. No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably this is not an uncommon fraud. While the size of the...

King of Hacks? Sony Breach May Have Yielded Thousands of Michael Jackson Songs

Parts of pop icon Michael Jackson’s discography, possibly his entire back catalog, have allegedly been stolen from Sony Music by hackers, according to a report from BBC this morning. It’s uncertain exactly how many songs were stolen. According to a report from The Guardian, hackers pilfered more...