Hacker Takes Over Drake, Eminem, and Justin Bieber’s YouTube Channels

“We just hacked Travis Scott,” a Twitter account underneath the title of Los Pelaos introduced in Spanish on Tuesday at 3:37 a.m.

This week, a few of the largest names within the music business had their YouTube accounts hacked by an “unauthorized source” who uploaded numerous odd clips of a convicted swindler. The record of these hit embrace Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Drake, Lil Nas X, Harry Styles, Michael Jackson, The Weekend and Eminem. These artists have a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of subscribers mixed on YouTube, Bieber alone has 68.2 million.

The hacker uploaded a video titled, “Justin bieber – Free Paco Sanz (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos)” to Bieber’s YouTube channel.

Just a few months in the past, Spanish conman Paco Sanz was sentenced to 2 years in jail for fraud after lying about having terminal cancer and defrauding massive quantities of cash between 2010 and 2017.

The video reveals Sanz holding a guitar the flawed means whereas singing alongside to a Spanish lure tune remixed by La Mafia Del Edit, a meme account on Instagram that defended Sanz again in February when he was convicted.

The twitter account underneath the deal with @lospeloaosbro continued to announce the record of artists getting hacked because it was occurring, often stopping to ask, “who next?” to their 14,900 followers. They additionally provided to promote safety to celebrities who didn’t wish to be hacked. The id of the account’s consumer is unknown, however the consumer’s picture seems to be that of Sanz with a nasal cannula.

The movies have been ultimately taken down after racking up 1000’s of views.

Although YouTube has not acknowledged the incident but, the video internet hosting service Vevo stated that it was reviewing its safety methods.

“Some videos were directly uploaded to a small number of Vevo artist channels earlier today by an unauthorized source,” a Vevo representative told The New York Post in a press release. “While the artist channels have been secured and the incident has been resolved, as a best practice Vevo will be conducting a review of our security systems.”

Artists, or moderately their file labels, add their music movies to Vevo by way of a separate verified channel, and YouTube merges that content material with the artist’s YouTube Channel.

YouTube has been heading off hackers after a current wave of assaults focusing on high-profile content material creators on the web site, publishing cryptocurrency scams or auctioning off entry to the YouTube accounts. Since then, YouTube has required fashionable pages on its web site to allow two-step verification.

Although the latest hijacking frenzy is over for now, the hackers could also be launching future assaults. The day after the hacking, the Los Pelaos account tweeted, “Give us ideas of possible platforms to hack. We do not attack governments, only private companies.”