A group of hackers exploited a potentially dangerous hole in VEVO and YouTube’s security, changing titles of several notable videos, such as Drake’s “God’s Plan” and Cardi B’s “Bartier Cardi.” The hackers change a variety of popular videos to different variations of “hacked by Kuroi’sh & Prosox.”
A few of the videos also added Shade and Akashi IT as accomplices, suggesting some additional manpower. A Twitter user with the handle ProsoxW3b claimed responsibility and said the hacking was done for fun.
@Vevo You have all my respect but do not leave the control to your site to any developer did not take into account this hacking it was a fun if we would like to harm your customers we would delete all the video but I did not delete despacito must believe me
— Prosox (@ProsoxW3b) April 10, 2018
@YouTube Its just for fun i just use script “youtube-change-title-video” and i write “hacked” don t judge me i love youtube <3
— Prosox (@ProsoxW3b) April 10, 2018
Luis Fonsi’s smash-single “Despacito,” which surpassed five billion plays just days ago, was also briefly erased. Initially, hackers merely changed the still image to a scene from Netflix’s Money Heist (also known as La Casa de Pape) with the caption ”Free Palestine.” But soon after, it was taken offline altogether.
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Prosox didn’t take responsibility for deleting “Despacito.” However, the Twitter user did note “if we would like to harm your customers we would delete all the video[s].”
The titles for the various videos have since been corrected and “Despacito” has been restored.
Source: Hip Hop DX