Security News > 2021 > July > Major news sites serve porn after vid.me domain takeover
2021-07-23 06:22
Major news sites including The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and HuffPost, saw their stories now displaying porn videos instead of the once-embedded intended ones.
The fiasco happened as prominent websites relied on the domain vid.
Websites of major news outlets such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Huffpost, among others, shocked readers when their stories displayed NSFW videos, with no relevance to the story.
Websites would use HTML iframes to display the videos hosted on the vid.
DOXIE hypothesized that the domain had expired and was taken over by a porn company, "5 Star HD Porn" which now redirects all vid.
Readers who prefer to block content from this domain from appearing in unexpected places can add vid.