Justin Bieber, Drake and Eminem had been among the many artists hacked on YouTube early Tuesday morning.
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A number of artists began their day falling sufferer to a hacking incident.
The YouTube channels of Justin Bieber, Drake, Eminem – who've a collective 145.9 million subscribers – in addition to many different A-list celebrities, appear to have been hacked early Tuesday morning.
Different artists who seem to have been hacked embody Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Harry Types, Kanye West, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Lil Nas X and Michael Jackson.
The Submit has reached out to YouTube for remark.
A number of profiles had unusual movies uploaded, which have since been eliminated.
One of many movies uploaded to those high-profile pages was titled “Justin bieber – Free Paco Sanz (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos),” in accordance with the Every day Mail.
Paco Sanz is a Spanish legal who defrauded 1000's of individuals by pretending to have a terminal sickness and is at the moment in jail.
The video posted confirmed Sanz holding a guitar backward and singing in Spanish.
Some Twitter customers took the freedom of display recording the video of Sanz.
One other video, which was posted on Harry Types’ YouTube web page, was known as, “Daddy Yankee – SPEED IS THE BEST HACKED BY @LOSPELAOSBRO ON TWITTER.”
It confirmed a bunch of males sporting hoodies with the phrase “velocity,” dancing to an tailored model of “Hit the Street Jack,” in accordance with the Every day Mail.
Twitter account @lospelaosbro claimed he was answerable for the hacks and was asking for strategies on who to hack subsequent.
Whereas the id behind the Twitter account is unknown, the account was posting photographs of what seems to be Paco Sanz. The account was solely created in April 2022 and has already amassed over 9,700 followers.
Enterprise Insider referred to the weird Twitter profile as a “s—tposting account,” which means it shares ironic and sarcastic content material with the purpose of getting a response. The point out of Will Smith and Chris Rock within the video title could be a technique to acquire traction following the controversial Oscars slap.
Followers had been fast to reply in disbelief.
“YouTube what’s happening all the highest artists channel hacked??” one individual tweeted.
“That’s loopy, how somebody can destroy your a number of 12 months’s arduous work inside a minute,” one other person added.
“That is so creepy prefer it’s 2022 and these things remains to be occurring😭,” a fan wrote on Reddit.
Different followers mocked the bizarre scenario.
“How are you gonna hack taylor swift’s YouTube channel and never launch a 1989 vault observe? Wasted alternative,” a fan wrote joking about Taylor Swift’s re-releases.
A Harry Types fan even made a pretend mock-up of a T-shirt studying “I used to be awake and survived Harry’s YouTube Channel being hacked.”
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