Professor Dubstep

You're not going to... I'm telling you now, you're not going to get one. I don't want to glorify any of this because it's not. It's a terrible thing. The double plate trading, the hacking, it's all just damaging to everyone involved. The artists, the people doing the hacking, you know, the... It's dangerous stuff, and it's just a bunch of kids who don't know better doing it at the time.

You're not going to... I'm telling you now, you're not going to get one. I don't want to glorify any of this because it's not. It's a terrible thing. The double plate trading, the hacking, it's all just damaging to everyone involved. The artists, the people doing the hacking, you know, the... It's dangerous stuff, and it's just a bunch of kids who don't know better doing it at the time.

You know, we were 14, 15, just sat there. Spintire was a lot older. He was about 30.

You know, we were 14, 15, just sat there. Spintire was a lot older. He was about 30.

So we carry on, right? We try and get some more targets. We think of other sites that we can try and log into. So we take a look at Box.com, which is a cloud storage provider usually used by small businesses, big businesses, record labels, production companies, anything. It's very popular because they offer great group collaboration options.

So we carry on, right? We try and get some more targets. We think of other sites that we can try and log into. So we take a look at Box.com, which is a cloud storage provider usually used by small businesses, big businesses, record labels, production companies, anything. It's very popular because they offer great group collaboration options.

So we take Skrillex's manager's password and we try it on the box.com account and it logs us straight in, straight into the inner workings of Skrillex's record label. We get in there and we can see all their upcoming releases and their production files, promotion plans. Upcoming releases for Skrillex? For Skrillex and all the artists on his label. Wow. That sounds like a big treasure trove.

So we take Skrillex's manager's password and we try it on the box.com account and it logs us straight in, straight into the inner workings of Skrillex's record label. We get in there and we can see all their upcoming releases and their production files, promotion plans. Upcoming releases for Skrillex? For Skrillex and all the artists on his label. Wow. That sounds like a big treasure trove.

There was a couple of terabytes worth of files in there. Holy cow. Box.com is a little bit more advanced. They send login notifications for unrecognized logins. So one of the first things we did was go into the settings and have a look. Did it say that we'd logged in? And this guy, this account that we'd logged into, he turned off the login notifications. So he had no idea that we'd got in there.

There was a couple of terabytes worth of files in there. Holy cow. Box.com is a little bit more advanced. They send login notifications for unrecognized logins. So one of the first things we did was go into the settings and have a look. Did it say that we'd logged in? And this guy, this account that we'd logged into, he turned off the login notifications. So he had no idea that we'd got in there.

None.

None.

Yeah. Leave something on for something like that, which is heavily relating to your business. You need to have these notifications turned on to tell you if your security is compromised.

Yeah. Leave something on for something like that, which is heavily relating to your business. You need to have these notifications turned on to tell you if your security is compromised.

Okay, so give me a list of things you found on there. There was unreleased Skrillex songs, there was individual audio assets for some Skrillex things, and the other artists on his label, like the individual master stems and things for songs, multi-tracks. so that you could basically break them down into their parts and things. Everything was stored in those.

Okay, so give me a list of things you found on there. There was unreleased Skrillex songs, there was individual audio assets for some Skrillex things, and the other artists on his label, like the individual master stems and things for songs, multi-tracks. so that you could basically break them down into their parts and things. Everything was stored in those.

Photoshop documents, promotion plans, documents saying what they were going to be doing for the next year or two years even. Internal voice recordings, meetings between the label executives and things. It was all kinds of stuff that really should, you know, it's confidential things and it was really unprotected files. There was no individual passwords on folders and things.

Photoshop documents, promotion plans, documents saying what they were going to be doing for the next year or two years even. Internal voice recordings, meetings between the label executives and things. It was all kinds of stuff that really should, you know, it's confidential things and it was really unprotected files. There was no individual passwords on folders and things.

It was just all open with 50 other accounts shared on all of them. My gosh.

It was just all open with 50 other accounts shared on all of them. My gosh.