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

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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[ArchieBunker]

Nothing of value was lost.

If I'm being honest...

[blind biker]

Several songs from DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Taylor Swift have also been either deleted

Part of me is not exactly outraged. I'm thinking humanity might get ahead for a moment if the flux of stupid is interrupted.

Re:If I'm being honest...

[GuB-42]

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.

Popular music is popular for a reason guys. It is not meant to be refined, it is meant to make people happy, and it works. Respect that. Yes it is stupid, partying is stupid, having some mindless fun is stupid, but that's the kind of stupid that makes the world a better place.

Re:If I'm being honest...

[blind biker]

Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.

And everytime there is someone pooping on pop music, there is that guy who is karmawhoring with exactly these words.

Re:Funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny, you forgot to quote[...]

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

Like ... by publishing their "story" in the Washington Post? Yeah, what a coverup! :)

The coverup is shooting someone who is clearly identified as a journalist. Israel does this kind of thing all the time. Hell, when an Israeli soldier was caught on video shooting a wounded and detained Palestinian in the head and was sentenced to a year in prison there were protests because the sentence was too harsh!

Re:Funny

[drinkypoo]

Dial down your off-topic antisemitic propaganda. The guy wasn't killed to prevent people from hearing a story, he was killed because he was in the middle of a violent riot.

Being opposed to the deliberate murder of journalists is not antisemitic. Being opposed to the silencing of the people of Palestine is not antisemitic. Pointing out that the nation of Israel is using many of the tactics of Nazi Germany is not antisemitic. Pointing out that Slashdot buried probably the most important fact of the story is not antisemitic.

If and when I start ranting about how "the Jews" are doing this or that, start pointing your accusatory finger. If I start frothing about how "the Zionist Conspiracy" is running Hollywood, you can point and laugh.

My views on the subject are summed up in this informative documentary.