It may have been a joke, and it was quite funny. But what makes me think it was a hack is there was never any mention about it on the sites news or radio....
Hacking is illegal...and hacking BBC would get a serious lawsuit if they were found out (if it was actually hacked, which I still doubt very much). It was probably just an employee playing a joke, maybe he was sacked or something and wanted to annoy them, I don't know The BBC website is bloody secure, I remember one of the guys who was on the web design team for making that new site came to give a lecture at my university last year. Although the lecture was on the design and site itself, there was a small bit about the security they have on it (although it didn't go into much detail for obvious reasons, but he still gave the impression that they had bloody good security).
Lol for some reason people think the BBC is too secure to be broken into... Thats a load of rubish! The FBI has been hacked before many times and I am sure they are more secure Tom
I didn't say it's too secure, everything can be hacked given enough time/money/resources. I just said no one is that stupid, especially just to redirect to a youtube video.
If people are stupid enough to hack goverment websites to just put their 1337 handle up there. I am sure some people would do it to link back to a youtube video. I found it quite funny and i am sure others would as well