Hack Reveals Suno AI Scraped Millions of YouTube Music Songs to Train Its AI

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source code from the popular generative AI music platform has leaked, revealing that the company built its core models by scraping millions of songs directly from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. Suno has long shielded its training methods behind vague statements about using “publicly available files.” However, this security breach provides the exact receipts—including a folder containing over two million harvested YouTube clips—handing major record labels the smoking gun in their ongoing multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit against the company. The leaked database and the scale of scraping The breach occurred in late 2025 when a hacker known as “ellie.191” used a supply chain attack to access a Suno employee’s credentials. The resulting leak exposed files showing the big scale of Suno’s automated harvesting. As 404Media reports, beyond the massive YouTube Music folder, Suno’s...