Service for storing videos Yesterday, Vevo was hacked, and the YouTube videos of well-known artists were replaced with clips of a Spanish conman.
According to The Verge, Vevo has admitted the occurrence, saying, "Earlier today, an unauthorized source directly uploaded certain movies to a small number of Vevo artist channels." So yet, there has been no explanation as to how it occurred.
Los Pelaos, a criminal organization, is suspected of being behind the breach, with the changed videos linking to the group's Twitter account @lospelaosbro.
Ariana Grande, Drake, Eminem, Harry Styles, Kanye West, Lil Nas X, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd, to mention a few of the more well-known acts, were among those whose YouTube feeds were affected. Instead of the music videos they were expecting, viewers were shown recordings of a Spanish conman who had been convicted of fraud after lying about having terminal cancer. Paco Sanz, 50, claimed to have over 2,000 tumors from Cowden syndrome on TV and social media between 2010 and 2017, claiming to have over 2,000 tumors.
Vevo was able to take down the videos, protect the artist accounts, and certify that no original videos were lost in the incident. Even still, it raises concerns about Vevo's network's security.
This isn't the first time Vevo's security has been compromised. An Okta login obtained through a phishing scheme was used to steal approximately 3TB of data from Vevo's internal systems in 2017. Then, in 2018, several of Vevo's music videos were altered or changed, which sounds very similar to the breach from the day before.