Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
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AI music generator Suno was hacked, with a hacker accessing source code that allegedly showed the company scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, stock music libraries, and podcast RSS feeds. Suno has previously argued it trains on publicly available music files under the fair use doctrine, but major record labels suing the company contend that deliberately circumventing YouTube's anti-scraping protections violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and YouTube's terms of service. The breach also exposed customer data including emails, phone numbers, and partial credit card numbers, though Suno claims it was a limited security incident that was quickly contained and did not notify customers when it occurred in November 2025.
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