{"id":102003,"date":"2024-06-03T21:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/youtube-insider-access-tied-to-massive-leaks\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:57:18","slug":"youtube-insider-access-tied-to-massive-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/youtube-insider-access-tied-to-massive-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube insider access tied to massive leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">One incident, as noted by Henderson, occurred in 2022 when KSI attempted to give away over $10,000 in Amazon gift cards. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KSI\/status\/1596643151980134405\" target=\"_blank\">KSI later realized<\/a> that all of the gift card codes had been redeemed before the video was posted, sparking an internal investigation at YouTube. The company reportedly started a similar investigation after the trailer for <em>GTA VI<\/em> leaked, but it\u2019s not clear whether it\u2019s related.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">All of this ties into what seems like an ongoing problem at Google. On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>404 Media<\/em> published reports<\/a> based on Google\u2019s internal database records, and it found that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/google-contractor-used-admin-access-to-leak-private-nintendo-youtube-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google contractor was behind<\/a> the 2017 Nintendo leak that offered an early look at <em>Yoshi\u2019s Crafted World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">At the time, a user on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nintendo\/comments\/6gyd01\/a_new_yoshi_game_probably_woolly_world_2_is_going\/?utm_source=embedv2&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;utm_content=post_title&amp;embed_host_url=https:\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/api\/iframe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit shared an image<\/a> of the trailer just before its reveal at E3. The image contained an \u201cadmin.youtube.com\u201d URL in the address bar, suggesting that an employee accessed the private version of the video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Google confirmed that an employee accessed the information in a database entry viewed by <em>404 Media<\/em>. \u201cGoogle employee deliberately leaked private Nintendo information,\u201d the entry said. \u201cFormer TVC [temporary vendor contractor] download video with admin account, and shared unreleased Nintendo feature with friend.\u201d The entry also reportedly said the incident was \u201cnon-intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">In a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>, Google spokesperson Matt Bryant says every flag reported by <em>404 Media<\/em> \u201cwas reviewed and resolved at that time.\u201d However, the company didn\u2019t elaborate on what it does to prevent employees from accessing and leaking content early.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/3\/24170740\/youtube-insider-access-massive-leaks-nintendo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One incident, as noted by Henderson, occurred in 2022 when KSI attempted to give away over $10,000 in Amazon gift cards. However, KSI later realized that all of the gift card codes had been redeemed before the video was posted, sparking an internal investigation at YouTube. 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