TVing And tvN’s YouTube Channels Were Hacked+All “Queen Of Tears” Videos Are Gone
"All the previous videos are gone. Did they all get deleted?"
Official YouTube videos of TVing and tvN’s popular dramas including “Queen of Tears” starring Kim Ji-won have disappeared all of a sudden. It is presumed that the official drama-focused YouTube accounts of TVing and tvN were hacked.
When people accessed tvN and TVing’s official drama-focused YouTube channels on July 20’s morning, the channels’ names were changed to “ripple.” All the existing drama videos on these channels have disappeared.
The channels’ IDs have also been changed, and TVing have released announcements in the community section.
TVing is on alert to understand the situation. “It seems that the channel name was changed due to an external hacking attack,” TVing said. “TVing is aware of the channel hacking and is taking measures to resolve the issue with YouTube. Please be careful not to click on suspected videos or posts with links.”
It is the first time that TVing’s YouTube account has been hacked. There are also concerns that the damage may spread to YouTube subscribers. tvN has 7.11 million YouTube subscribers and TVing has 986,000.
TVing said, “We will do our best to recover the channel quickly.” There have been cases of hacking where channels’ names were changed to “ripple” in other countries as well. In some cases, the channels were deleted without being recovered.
Since the morning, on various online communities, fans have made a flurry of concerns, such as “All the existing videos have been blown away,” “Is it all deleted,” and “The playlist as well.”
TVing is a platform that is gaining huge popularity in the domestic streaming market for its various original contents and popular dramas. Its number of monthly users reaches 7 million. The first hacking case occurred, putting content platform management on alert.
