Channel Seven is hacked after community massacre the place 150 jobs have been reduce

Channel Seven seems to have been hacked with its YouTube channel focused.

The 7NEWS Australia YouTube channel is now exhibiting a faux live-stream video of an AI-generated Elon Musk telling viewers to speculate cryptocurrency and obtain twice the quantity in return. 

As many as 60,000 individuals are at present watching the live-stream which purportedly reveals Musk talking with a microphone to a crowd who applaud him.

A QR scan additionally seems on the video, with viewers urged to click on on it to speculate.

The community’s Dawn YouTube account has additionally been compromised, with viewers taken to Tesla’s profile once they click on onto it.

The stream has been working for slightly below an hour-and-a-half. 

‘All you could do is scan the QR code on the display, go to the web site and watch your cryptocurrency double,’ the AI-generated Musk is heard saying.

‘Immediately’s occasion is an opportunity for all crypto lovers and customers to double their property. This is a chance that can’t be missed.’

AI-generated members of the viewers are even seen asking Musk questions. 

When individuals search Channel Seven on YouTube they’re taken to the Tesla YouTube account

The live-stream reveals Musk giving the identical speech time and again. 

The hack comes after 150 workers throughout Seven West Media have been knowledgeable on Tuesday they might lose their jobs as a part of mass redundancies.

Chief government Jeff Howard instructed workers in an electronic mail on Tuesday that prices wanted to be reduce, particularly within the wake of Meta selecting to not renew its deal to pay for Australian information content material.

Meta owns Fb and Instagram. 

‘A lot of roles throughout the corporate will change and sadly some individuals shall be leaving us,’ Mr Howard mentioned.

‘We’ll work laborious to cut back the impression on individuals as a lot as we will, and we’ll ensure that our individuals are absolutely supported.’

Among the many adjustments to SWM is the departure of chief income officer Kurt Burnette, chief advertising and marketing and viewers officer Melissa Hopkins, and Seven’s head of sport and managing director of Melbourne, Lewis Martin.

The trio mixed have devoted 65 years to SWM, with Mr Howard saying the office ‘shall be very totally different with out them’.

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