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Code in the breach also suggests Suno routed scraping traffic through third-party proxies, and used PodcastIndex to identify hundreds of thousands of podcasts for potential ingestion. Suno disclosed the breach itself in a statement, saying it detected \"a limited security incident\" in November 2025 that was \"quickly contained\" and involved \"outdated source code that is no longer in use.\"\n\nThe significance here is less the hack than the specificity it provides. Suno had already admitted in 2024 court filings to training on \"essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet,\" but internal dataset labels naming exact sources and hour counts are harder to wave away than a general disclosure. The Recording Industry Association of America has accused Suno of unlawfully scraping YouTube tracks; these files suggest that accusation was directionally correct. Suno's spokesperson pushed back, telling 404 Media that outputs are \"significantly different from original works\" and that the company has invested in safeguards against impersonation.\n\nThe fair use argument has found some traction in US courts — judges ruled in favor of Anthropic and Meta on similar training-data claims last year — but Suno's case involves alleged proxy-routed scraping at industrial scale, which may test those precedents further.","[\"ai\",\"music\",\"copyright\",\"security\"]","2026-07-17T12:30:08.000Z","2026-07-17T13:04:12.043Z","2026-07-17T13:04:14.854Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The article omits the content of Suno's spokesperson statement to 404 Media — which is quoted in full in the source and is directly relevant to the story — without marking the omission as deliberate; additionally, 'Recording Industry Association of America' is rendered as 'Recording Industry of America' in the source (the article uses the correct full name but the source truncates it, so this is fine), but the article drops the spokesperson's substantive defense about outputs being 'significantl","resolved","ai",[30,32,33,34],"music","copyright","security",[36],{"name":37,"url":38},"PCGamer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcgamer.com\u002Fsoftware\u002Fai\u002Fai-music-generator-suno-has-been-hacked-detailing-the-data-scraping-of-millions-of-songs-from-youtube-deezer-and-genius\u002F",0,{"sections":41},[42,45,49,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99,104],{"name":43,"slug":30,"count":44,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",2600,{"name":46,"slug":34,"count":47,"latest_published_at":48},"Security",309,"2026-07-17T14:43:57.000Z",{"name":50,"slug":51,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Policy","policy",166,"2026-07-17T08:53:08.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]