Sesame Street briefly goes X-rated

The YouTube channel for Sesame Street is back online after hackers forced its shutdown for a day by loading X-rated material.

Sesame Street executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente said that YouTube had taken the channel down Sunday in the US after noticing the racy material. The channel usually carries new and vintage clips from the popular preschool program.

Parente says it appears that the X-rated videos were online for less than an hour and that Sesame Street had received no viewer complaints.   Read More