'We are working to reinstate all videos affected in our catalogue to be restored to full working order. In a statement to Business Insider, VEVO confirmed that a number of its videos were subject to a security breach, but said that the breach had since been contained. The videos all appear to be official VEVO music videos, a video hosting platform partnered with YouTube and music labels, which could point to a hack that was specifically aimed at compromising VEVO. The video has since been restored to its original state. The site's most popular video of all time was defaced and other popular music videos from artists like Shakira, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Rihanna were briefly defaced and altered.įor a short time, YouTube's most popular video, a music video called 'Despacito' by the artist Luis Fonsi with more than 5 billion views, was altered to feature imagery of a masked, gun-wielding gang from the Netflix show Casa de Papel. YouTube say that 'after seeing unusual upload activity on a handful of VEVO channels, we worked quickly with our partner to disable access while they investigate the issue.”.Although there's still a great deal of mystery surrounding the matter, many users on Twitter and YouTube are pointing to the Twitter users and both of whom have claimed responsibility for the hack on Twitter.Other music videos including those from artists like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Shakira were briefly defaced and altered as well.YouTube's most-watched video was recently hacked, defaced, and then removed from the web for a short time.

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