Tuesday, April 10, 2018

YouTube hackers deface and unlist tons of popular music videos


Something fishy is going on with YouTube. It appears the Google subsidiary has been hit by hackers as a number of popular music videos have been defaced – or have suddenly disappeared. Indeed, the platform’s most viewed video ever – Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankeee – was temporarily unavailable on YouTube. It remains unclear what the source of the attack is, but most of the affected videos were uploaded from Vevo accounts. Someone just owned a LOT of VEVO accounts @YouTube. pic.twitter.com/dlGTFrypW8 — Melvin Lammerts (@showthread) April 10, 2018 While social media chatter suggested the attackers had initially…

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