Leaks Reveal Suno Fed Thousands of Hours of Deezer, YouTube and Pond5 Data Into Its AI

A hacker broke into AI music platform Suno and walked out with source code that documents, in precise detail, exactly where the company's training data came from. The breach was first reported by 404 Media, which reviewed the leaked files. It confirms what the music industry had been saying in courts since 2024. The intruder claims to have used a piece of malware called the Shai-Hulud worm—named after the enormous sandworms in Frank Herbert's Dune. Suno, one of the largest AI music generators on...