Ricky Patrick
Youtube’s music video for one of the top most songs “Despacito” has been hacked. A lot of artists including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Drake and Taylor Swift are also affected. The Vevo channel has reportedly been affected with most videos’ titles changed.
The Despacito video, which has now been removed, shows image of a bunch of masked people having guns.
No No 😮 Hey @LuisFonsi @daddy_yankee, a hacker just deleted your Despacito song from YouTube. pic.twitter.com/0YPzizRGVc
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) 10 April 2018
The hackers were named Prosox and Kuroi’sh and they wrote “Free Palestine” under the videos. Only titles have been changed for most of the videos, however, some of the video cover and videos were also altered.
A Twitter account that apparently belongs to one of the hackers posted: “It’s just for fun, I just use [the] script ‘youtube-change-title-video’ and I write ‘hacked’.”
“Don’t judge me I love YouTube,” it added.
@YouTube Its just for fun i just use script “youtube-change-title-video” and i write “hacked” don t judge me i love youtube <3
— Prosox (@ProsoxW3b) 10 April 2018
The hacked manage to affect various other artists as well.
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Seems Kuroi’SH also managed to hack @shakira‘s @Vevo YouTube account.
cc: @YouTube @Vevo_Media @vevo @LuisFonsi @daddy_yankee pic.twitter.com/LcDdIQ6ree
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) 10 April 2018
