I was getting: ` 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them): <SOMETHING> `

However, they are back up for me.

I was seeing that same thing. The headline was "500 Internal Server Error" but the response code was actually 200.

I'm getting the same thing.

Same, yet the first thing I thought is did my ISP setup some blocking now? lol

Yeah me too. Back up now

The productivity of the whole tech industry has just increased!

it is because of China cyber attack. Guowengui(郭文贵） will expose Chinese govement corruption on youtube today

Its live now, but no translation. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lPKqyoqkrQKb

http://downdetector.com/status/youtube Youtube was down for 30 minutes due to DOS attack launched by Chinese communist government to disrupt the live broadcast event of Chinese billionaire in exile Guo Wengui. He planned to expose the evidence of the corruption of top Chinese government officials, but Youtube was brought down 1 and half minutes after the live broadcast began. Here is a report for another episode involving Voice of America(VOA): http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/09/interview-with-guo-wengui-thr...

Yup, I've gotten it a couple of times this morning. I bet they're quite aware and are working on fixing it.

I like to watch videos before going to work and them being down has my morning in a funk.

I didn't expect the outage to last this long. Neither did they, I'm sure.

I'm in the process of uploading a video, and that is still working properly. However, trying to playback some of the videos I just uploaded is hitting an error.

Seems to be a partial outage.

Is youtube.com Down?

It's just you. youtube.com is up.

https://isup.pro/youtube.com

Yup. Looks like they just came back online.

it is because of China cyber attack. Guowengui(郭文贵） will expose Chinese govement corruption on youtube today

maybe only in USA? in Netherlands there were no issues in the last hour

because of guowengui's live

This is Hacker News?

Confirmed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568693

Looks like they were hacked. Not sure what the hash represents but i am sure someone will decode it shortly

It's probably correlation information that allows them to pull further diagnostic information.

Mind sharing what information you have which makes you think they were hacked? :)

Pretty sure the "hash" is just some encoded debugging data and logs.

Because, of course, when you hack Youtube you put a hash up there.

It's an encrypted, base64 encoded, traceback w/ some other data. They could get it from logs, but it comes in handy when individuals are reporting issues.

I don't believe that means they were hacked.