(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Toronto, Canada (AHN) - YouTube users hoping to watch videos of Justin Beiber found themselves redirected to porn sites. Hackers committed the attack by exploiting a functionality in the comments section. The teen phenom who has seen his popularity explode due to the Internet is now also at the Internet's mercy in regards to pranks and hacker attacks.

Over the weekend pranksters redirected users to porn sites and in addition also sent users to banner messages reporting the singer's death. With Bieber's videos receiving thousands of views a day and mostly by underage girls the experience is sure to have caused some duress to at least more than one fan and parent.

Google was able to stop the attack, which originated from a weak point in the site’s comment section.

A Google spokesperson said, “We released a complete fix for the problem in about two hours. We’re continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future.”

The incident has been blamed on the Internet forum 4Chan, however other groups are reported to have joined in on the prank once the original hacking was made public.

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thats friggin hilarious

Lol this guy is gay he should have killed him self before i do.

haha yea I saw that this morning, made me laugh!

Hopefully he will stfu and never make another song

a lot of videos had malicious code on them, if you enabled it to see the comments a lot of songs i was listening to had shit pop up that say youtube was compromised and it just had text that ran across your screen


im not sure how youtube could let something like this lapse though, i mean the comment section you can post scripts and codes ?

ahahha! halariouse! rofl

charlie bit my finger was redirected to a man with his arse inside out... all the popular videos were messed with in some way... was really funny

that just made my week.