Tuesday 10 April 2018

Despacito, has been hacked,which has had over five billion views.



A bunch of hackers have hacked VEVO, they've changed the titles of all the popular music videos and deleted Despacito. Gangnam Style is the only song that isn't on a VEVO channel because Psy was smart enough to upload it to his own.

Hackers broke into the video for "Despacito" on Monday (Apr. 9) and defaced the clip's cover image with a picture of a masked people pointing guns, resulting in the most-viewed music video of all time being taken down temporarily. According to BBC News, the hackers, who go by Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had also broken into clips by more than a dozen other artists, including Drake, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Shakira


The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had replaced some of the videos' titles with their own messages, including a call to "free Palestine" alongside their own nicknames.

hackers posted a cryptic message to Vevo, writing "@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."


 Prof Alan Woodward,Cyber-security expert, said it was unlikely that the hacker had been able to gain access so easily.

"To upload and alter video content with code you should require an authorisation token," he said.

"So, either this hacker has found a way around that need for authorisation, or they are being economical with the facts, or they obtained the permissions in some other way."

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