Fans of YouTuber PewDiePie hacked into and defaced a section of the Wall Street Journal website and hacked into printers, in order to race ahead of record label T-Series to become the most popular YouTube channel in the world.
As a result of the hack, a fake apology was posted which read, "WallStreet Journal would like to apologize to PewDiePie due to misrepresentation by our journalists, those of whom have now been fired, we are sponsoring PewDiePie to reach maximum subscribers and beat T-Series to 80 million. (sic) " The post has been deleted now.
The Independent UK reported that a WSJ spokesperson was not available for a comment immediately.
Another hacking happened when Felix Kjellberg’s (PieDiePie’s real name) fans hacked into thousands of printers; again urging people to subscribe to the YouTube channel.