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YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

Several high-profile music videos on YouTube were mysteriously deleted early Tuesday, in what appears like the result of a security compromise. Some of the videos that have been pulled from Google's video platform include Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" -- which is also the most popular video on the platform. Users reported Tuesday that the thumbnail of the video was replaced by a masked gang holding guns, who identify themselves as "Prosox and Kuroi'sh." Several songs from DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Taylor Swift have also been either deleted or altered with. On Twitter, a person who claims to be one of the hackers, said, "@YouTube Its just for fun i just use script "youtube-change-title-video" and i write "hacked" don t judge me i love youtube." Google has yet to acknowledge the incident. Further reading: BBC.

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  1. Funny by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Funny, you forgot to quote this:

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

    1. Re:Funny by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Informative

      Funny, you forgot to quote[...]

      It's quite astonishing what some people will do to prevent anyone hearing their story.

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  2. Re:If I'm being honest... by lucm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.
    Probably the same guy who comments on the "poor choice" of music at parties instead of just having fun.

    As far as I'm concerned, real music died when heathens turned away from gregorian chants and started to use harmonies and chords. Once that line was crossed, the gates of Hell opened and now we have fat girls with no musical talent on the youtubes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    ^ This is not what God intended when he gave us the blessed diatonic scale. REPENT, PEOPLE

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    lucm, indeed.