Eminem, Kanye West, Drake, And Extra Had YouTube Accounts Hacked

We’re about two weeks faraway from Joyner Lucas’ Twitter rant the place he dissed Lollapalooza and Machine Gun Kelly and later claimed that Russian hackers have been accountable for the posts. Most individuals took Lucas’ declare as nothing greater than a joke (which he later admitted via an apology). With that being stated, there was really a latest hacking within the music neighborhood and this one was no joke. In keeping with HipHopDX, YouTube channels that belong to big-name acts like Eminem, Drake, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and extra have been hacked lately. On Tuesday, followers seen that odd movies have been being posted on the accounts and so they took to social media to share their findings.

The movies have been faraway from the artists’ accounts, however the unauthorized uploads had titles like “Free Paco Sanz (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos).” Paco Sanz is a Spanish swindler who was convicted of fraud a number of months in the past after he scammed quite a few folks after making them assume he had a terminal illness. Because of this, Sanz, who probably had nothing to do with the hacking, is ready to spend the remainder of his life in jail. Different artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Harry Types, The Weeknd, Lil Nas X, and the late Michael Jackson additionally noticed their YouTube accounts hacked with related movies.

Whereas YouTube has not spoken out in regards to the matter but, music video accomplice VEVO launched an announcement to deal with the incident. “Some movies have been instantly uploaded to a small variety of Vevo artist channels earlier in the present day by an unauthorized supply,” they stated to the New York Publish. “All of these improperly uploaded movies have since been deleted by Vevo. No pre-existing content material was accessible to the supply. Whereas the artist channels have been secured and the incident has been resolved, as a finest follow Vevo can be conducting a evaluate of our safety programs.”

You may see some screenshots and movies of the hacked accounts above.