Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

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The AI euphony generator Suno was hacked, according to a study from 404 Media.

The hacker told the work that they utilized a proviso concatenation onslaught to entree an employee’s credentials, allowing them to past entree root codification showing however Suno allegedly scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, banal euphony libraries, and podcast RSS feeds.

Suno antecedently admitted that it trains its AI connected “publicly disposable euphony files” connected the unfastened internet, arguing that it tin bid connected copyrighted worldly nether the just usage doctrine, a subjective carve retired of copyright law. But according to the large grounds labels actively suing Suno, it is illegal nether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to deliberately circumvent YouTube’s protections against information scraping; it besides violates YouTube’s presumption of service.

Udio, a rival to Suno, has besides been accused of scraping YouTube data. Google, the genitor institution of YouTube, faces akin allegations of copyright infringement from a assortment of large publication publishers.

The hacker reportedly accessed lawsuit information including customer emails, telephone numbers, and partial recognition paper numbers successful Stripe.

Suno did not notify customers astir the November 2025 breach and claims that this was a “limited information incidental that was rapidly contained.”

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