David Guetta’s record label was in for a rude awakening earlier this week after a bored 6 year old hacker “stole” the artist’s latest single via the studio’s unsecured wi-fi and then released it online.
Speaking to a BBC radio show, Guetta said “It’s really crazy [how little we do to protect our work]. I know it sounds like a [cheap] film [from 1981] but it’s the truth. Usually inside a studio there’s a Wi-Fi connection [that anyone can access] so between the engineer and the artist [and everyone else] we can send tracks to work. They [the hackers] would be outside in a car [waiting to have a crack at our wi-fi password, which is 123456].”
To remedy the security problem, the label hired “a real specialist,” a guy who used to mow the lawn for someone who had a friend whose brother’s uncle’s second cousin’s father was a Pentagon security investigator back in the ’40s.
“Hello señors, I am here to secure things.“
In all seriousness though, if a studio is so poorly managed that its wi-fi connections are unsecured and risk exposing important internal files, it should just put its music on iTunes for free. You know, to make the actions of the hackers redundant.
Luckily for Guetta, the leaked single isn’t too good and so nothing of value was lost.
