Suno has captured millions of songs on YouTube, Genius, and Deezer

Suno’s data obtained from the hack revealed that the AI ​​music maker was trained to extract millions of songs and lyrics from online listening platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, 404 Media reports. Since Suno has refrained from revealing the contents of his training sessions and how they were obtained, this is a rare item that Suno has. actually they have been taking on an online platform.

This is important because Suno has been involved in many cases where it was allegedly used copying tools training its AI models. In a familiar story by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Suno openly admitted that it does, arguing that the teaching of copyrighted material and publicly available music from the open internet is legally permissible under the fair use doctrine. Whether the court agrees or not, the amendment the RIAA issued last year says Suno illegally circumvented YouTube’s privacy policy. “ripping” music from the platform.

Shared resources 404 Media and the hacker, who goes by the name “ellie.191,” is said to confirm this. Contains Suno source code from 2023 and 2024, following instructions to pull audio files from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Some of the leaked code reportedly shows that Suno used a third-party company called Bright Data to search for music from YouTube, and it appears that they search for acapella songs on the platform to find only the audio.

The YouTube Music file says Suno consumed 2,013,545 YouTube Music tracks when it was last updated. According to another file, the data generated by Suno included hundreds of thousands of hours of YouTube Music, thousands of hours of Deezer, Genius, IMSLP, Jamendo, and Pond5, and hundreds of hours of Freesound and MuseScore audio. Suno also sought to download nearly 1 million hours of podcasts through an online tool called PodcastIndex, according to additional code.

“As mentioned in the public files and revelationsSuno’s AI models have been trained on publicly available music files and related metadata available from third-party sites on the open internet,” an unnamed Suno spokesperson said. 404 Media.

Suno’s customer information was also accessed by the hacker, including email addresses, phone numbers, and Stripe payment information. Some of the customers who were contacted are 404 Media confirmed that they had signed up for the project, and said that Suno had not notified them of the security breach.

In words to 404 MediaA Suno spokesperson said the company became aware of the incident in November 2025, and that the incident happened quickly.

“At that time, we immediately conducted an investigation and confirmed that the incident involved old codes that are no longer used at Suno and that no personal information was compromised. Importantly, Suno does not have access to all credit card numbers at Stripe,” Suno said. “Based on the lack of information about the customers believed to be affected, we determined that individual information was not admissible under privacy laws.”