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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. And by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing of value was lost.

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  2. If I'm being honest... by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:If I'm being honest... by GuB-42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re:If I'm being honest... by belthize · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nah, I think it's just because this particular new generation has shit taste in music vs my generation, oddly enough the generation previous to mine also had shit taste in music.

    3. 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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    4. Re:If I'm being honest... by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The three steps of getting old:

      1: The music is great!
      2: The music is just not great anymore.
      3: The music could be great (because it's all covers of the songs I loved in my youth) but they play it ALL WRONG!

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  3. 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.

  4. Probably hacked the record label, not YouTube. by pikine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the pattern of the damage, those YouTube channels belonging to DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, etc. probably are managed by the same record label marketing person. They probably just hacked into the computer managing these channels while the accounts are still logged in. Everything they did for the damage are something that channel owners could do: changing cover picture, video description, deletion. The actual video content itself hasn't been changed, which is exactly what content creators can't do to their videos, despite it being a popular request.

    If they had really hacked YouTube, they may have been able to replace the video if they could pull it off, but since the videos are divided into chunks and aggressively cached by the CDN (as the videos are served over MPEG-DASH), they will probably get very mixed result at best with some chunks from the old video mixed with chunks from the new video.

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