11 March 2010 | Author: R. Falconer SEO Consultant

YouTube Hacked?

Google's video site, YouTube was unavailable for some time this afternoon. Some reports said that the site had been hacked.

YouTube Hacked?

Currently, a visit to youtube.com returns "500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation."

Google was at the centre of the Chinese government hacking scandal recently and has also recently been a target of mass uploading of pornography by users of the site 4chan. No confirmation has yet been received that this downtime is the result of a hacking attack but the signs appear to be there.

The site went back online around 5.15pm GMT.