Hacked Suno Files Reveal 2 Million YouTube Music Clips in AI Training
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Updated · The Verge · Jul 15
Hacked Suno Files Reveal 2 Million YouTube Music Clips in AI Training
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Jul 15
Summary
2,013,545 YouTube Music clips appeared in leaked Suno files, which also showed the AI music generator trained on millions of scraped songs and lyrics from Deezer, Genius and other platforms.
2023 and 2024 source code and scraping instructions detailed pulls from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound and IMSLP, with code also seeking a cappella tracks and roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.
The leak bolsters record-label claims that Suno used copyrighted works and may have bypassed YouTube protections; Suno has argued in court that training on publicly available internet music is fair use.
Customer email addresses, phone numbers and Stripe-related payment details were also exposed, though Suno said the November 2025 incident was quickly contained and did not warrant individual breach notifications.