Famous YouTube Channels Hacked by Prosox & Kuroi’sh

YouTube's music video for the hit song Despacito, which has had over five billion views, has been hacked.

YouTube's music video for the hit song Despacito, which has had over five billion views, has been hacked.

More than a dozen other artists, including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Drake and Taylor Swift are also affected. The original clips had been posted by Vevo.

The Despacito video has been removed, but its cover image had shown a group wearing masks and pointing guns.

The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had written "Free Palestine" underneath the videos.

Several of the clips remain live at time of writing.

Of those, the actual video content itself appears to be unaltered. Many titles have been changed to include the names of the hackers, but only some feature the replaced cover image.

The shocking news that has so far blown everyone away is the deletion of the most viewed song in the history of YouTube ‘Despacito’. The song was the first to cross 5 billion views mark in just a small span of time.

Other artists that had their videos affected include the following:

• Drake
• Luis Fonsi
• Maroon 5
• Shakira
• Adele
• Selena Gomez
• Kaaris
• Lacrim Vevo
• Katy Perry
• Maître Gims
• Taylor Swift
• DJ Snake
• Calvin Harris
• Iggy Azalea

Kuroi’sh responded to these attacks with a Tweet claiming that was all his work and further claiming that he’s already inside the YouTube’s CEO account.

Hacked @YouTube @shakira @postmalone+ more@YouTube @SusanWojcicki I'm already in your account too

— Kuroi'SH (@sh_kuroi) April 10, 2018

Both YouTube and the music video hosting service Vevo have been contacted for comment.A Twitter account that apparently belongs to one of the hackers posted:

@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

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Source :- BBC NEWS