OurMine leaks 3TB of Vevo data after hacking video streaming service

Infamous hacker group OurMine has struck video streaming service Vevo. The group breached Vevo late on Thursday, gaining access to, and leaking, more than 3 terabytes of internal videos and documents.

OurMine -- more recently involved in HBO hacks and Game of Thrones leaks -- managed to get hold of office documents, videos and promotional materials. While many of the files and documents are fairly innocuous, at least some of them would be considered "sensitive" in nature.

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It's not clear what prompted OurMine to target Vevo, but the group gives something of an explanation about why it then leaked 3.12TB of data. It seems that -- as it often does with websites and services -- OurMine uncovered a vulnerability in an app used by Vevo, namely Okta. The white hat hacking group then reached out to Vevo to notify them of the security issue and was apparently told to "fuck off." Following this, the group then leaked the cache of data online.

In an email to Gizmodo, OurMine said: "If they asked us to remove the files then we will."

Vevo confirmed the hack, saying:

Vevo experienced a data breach as a result of a phishing scam via Linkedin. We have addressed the issue and are investigating the extent of exposure.

OurMine broke news of the leak on its website, linking to the cache of files. While the page linking to the documents is still live, the site now bears the message: " We deleted the files because of a request from VEVO."

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