YouTube’s music video for the hit song Despacito, which has had over five billion views, has been hacked, reports BBC. The hackers hit more than a dozen artists, including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Drake and Taylor Swift are also affected. All the original clips had been posted by Vevo. The Despacito video has been removed but its cover image was replaced with a group wearing masks and pointing guns.
Despacito, the most watched YouTube video ever, has been ‘deleted’ in a cyber hack https://t.co/8SsveyGKVy
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) April 10, 2018
The group, which calls themselves Prosox and Kuroi’sh, wrote “Free Palestine” underneath all the videos they hacked. The actual video content of some appears to be unaltered, but many of the names have been changed to include the names of the hackers, but only some feature the replaced cover image, according to BBC. A Twitter account that appears to belong to one of the hackers posted:”It’s just for fun, I just use [the] script ‘youtube-change-title-video’ and I write ‘hacked’.”
@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) April 10, 2018
However, cyber-security expert Professor Alan Woodward from Surrey University told BBC it was unlikely the hacker got access so easily, and that they had to either found a way around the need for authorization or they obtained permissions in some other way.
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