Sesame Street back online after hackers’ porn attack

October 18, 2011 | World News | Written by

London, Oct 18: The YouTube channel for Sesame Street is back online after hackers forced its shutdown for a day by loading X-rated material.

The children’s TV favourite Sesame Street was taken offline after the attacker, calling himself “Mredxwx”, struck on Sunday night.

The obscene material was available for around 20 minute before the site’s operator Google shut down the channel.

In a message to YouTube users, “Mredxwx” wrote: “Who doesn’t love porn kids?”

“Right! Everyone loves it!”

The channel, which has now been secured and restored, has 148,000 subscribers and its videos have been viewed more than 440 million times, The Telegraph reports.

Google said it acted as soon as it received complaints.

“YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit graphic content. As always, we remove inappropriate material as soon as we are made aware of it,” it said in a statement.

There was confusion about the identity of the hacker. A YouTube member with the same “Mredxwx” username quickly denied involvement. (ANI)