Four tracks from Gorillaz's upcoming album were leaked before its official release, as someone used a very weak password.
Two days ago, the entire tracklist for Gorillaz's new album was released by music production company Phonographic Performance Limited.
Then the band's fans decided to search the internet to find traces of these songs. They discovered 4 of them uploaded as videos on Vimeo, only they were protected by a password.
The videos were uploaded by Dylan Byrne, a lighting technician who works with the band. Dylan didn't know that even though he uploaded the videos privately, Google could index them very easily. That's why they appeared as results for queries from the band's friends, who weren't searching blindly, as the song titles had already been published.
From that point on, it was only a matter of time before Gorillaz fans managed to crack the password. Reddit user mrmoosechill was the first to report that the password was a very simple “2017.”
It should be noted that the videos and the Vimeo account have now been deleted, but they still exist somewhere on the Internet.
