Suno Hack Spilled the Receipt: 113,879 Hours Ripped From YouTube, Called It Fair Use

A hacker breached the AI music generator Suno and handed 404 Media source code that reads like an itemized confession: 2,013,545 clips and 113,879 hours pulled from YouTube Music, plus thousands of hours each from Deezer, Genius, Pond5, and roughly a million hours of podcasts scraped through RSS feeds. Code in the leak routed YouTube scraping through Bright Data proxies, which layers a possible DMCA circumvention problem on top of the copyright suits record labels already filed, and the same breach exposed hundreds of thousands of customer emails, phone numbers, and Stripe details Suno never disclosed. Suno had already conceded in court it trained on “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet” and calls the whole haul fair use. The company told 404 Media the leak was outdated code from a “limited security incident” and that no sensitive data was compromised, which is a fascinating thing to say about a customer list a stranger walked out the door with. 404 Media on the Suno hack