Hackers hacked YouTube and removed the most popular video

Right now, a hacker group calling itself Prosox and Kuroi'sh is hacking YouTube's video hosting and changing the names of the most popular music video clips of Vevo. Under the "distribution" has already managed to get the most viewed video - a clip for the song "Despacito" of Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Hackers first replaced the clip with their own video, in which the calls to "Release Palestine" sounded, and then the video disappeared altogether from the video hosting site. He had more than 5 billion views!

In addition, as a result of the hacker attack, the names of popular music videos of such artists as Shakira, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Drake have been changed. All these videos came out on Vevo. At the time of this news, all the clips with the changed names are still in rotation and have not been deleted or blocked by YouTube.

The management of YouTube and the Vevo channel has not yet commented on the situation with the hacking of the service pages.

Screenshot with the modified output of the clip of Shakira for the song "Chantaje"

According to the latest information, supposedly Prosox is one of the active users of the French site for gamers Jeuxvideo.com. On your page in Twitter Prosox wrote , that he did it for fun.

"It's all for fun. I just used the "youtube-change-title-video" script and wrote "hacked." Do not judge me, I love YouTube. "

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