C.he what some great stars of current music have in common, including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Kanye West, Travis Scott, The Weeknd and Lil Nas X? In addition to being among the most followed and successful singers of the moment – many have several Grammys in their living room and, overall, they boast over 146 million subscribers to their YouTube profiles – all of them have been hacked night time by a mysterious hacker.
Yesterday morning, waking up, they found a bitter surprise: someone, during the night, he had in fact emptied the YouTube profiles with their songs, uploading absurd and meaningless videos insteadpromptly removed from artists’ staffs.
Justin Bieber, here with his wife Hailey at recent Grammy’s, was also hacked. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic)
The absurd videos uploaded by the hacker
Among them, the most popular footage depicts Paco Sanz playing the guitar upside down – in the wooden part, where there are no strings – intoning the piece Justin Bieber – Paco Sanz free (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos).
Below, a Twitter user shared Justin Bieber’s hacked profile
In detail, the “Paco Sanz “ of the song title is a dangerous Spanish criminal currently in prison for defrauding thousands of people by pretending to have a terminal illness. So, the mystery hacker is someone who – undercover – is trying to bring attention to the incarcerated criminaltaking advantage of the popularity of the artists.
Second Business Insiderthe video by Paco Sanz has been online for an hour before being removed from the various YouTube channels: several users managed to see it and also reposted it in turn.
The expert: “Once they entered the system, they hacked everyone”
Second Graham Cluleya computer and cyber security expert interpreted by DailyMail on this mega attack, the intrusion was possible because all these high profile artists lean on same external company to manage their social media business. Hence only one system breached, the hackers managed to get hold of the profiles of hundreds of artists.
Who is the hacker behind the YouTube attacks
The identity of the hacker, as we said, is obviously unknownbut the Twitter account @lospelaosbro (named after a Latin pop group and already has more than 14,000 followers) claimed responsibility for the attacks on YuTube in a flurry of tweets. In which then, very democratically, you asked suggestions to followers on next names to hack.
And, as he announced a few minutes ago on Twitter, today he will be angry with the Spanish artists (under).
The Twitter account of the hacker who, today, threatens to hack the profiles of Spanish singers: “Today it’s the Spaniards,” he writes. (Twitter)
And it seems that who is behind the identity of Paco Sanz did not want to harm the artists at all – not a competitor – but just have some fun doing what is called “sh ** posting”, or the post meaningless, irrelevant or deliberately provocative content on social media just to get a reaction. And so it was, except that the fans were sharply divided between who took the hacker attack on laughing and who it is. lined up next to their favorites. Who did not take very well the fact of having hosted on their profile – even if only virtually – a dangerous criminal.
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