Most Watched YouTube Video Ever Deleted - Despacito

Despacito which means 'Slowly' in English is a single by Luis Fonsi Featuring Daddy Yankee a Puertio Rican rapper, one of the hottest and most watched YouTube video ever with over 5 billion views was recently deleted from the video sharing network (YouTube) the video was unavailable for sometimes after an apparent hack.






The record breaking music video Despacito have been restored. The hackers apparently changed the video title to read 'Hacked by Prosox & Kuroi’SH & Shade & Akashi IT & KiraRoot & Xepher & SenpaiWeb & Misao…' The video's thumbnail was also replaced with a picture scene from 'Casa de Papel' a show on Netflix that shows a group of masked figures pointing guns towards the camera. When ever the play button is clicked, it says 'video is unavailable'.

The Hack news tweeted that Kuroi'SH the hacker who is responsible for most of the defaced YouTube videos was also responsible for hacking BBC Arabic's and Now This News handle few days ago.

NEW: ⚡ Vevo's @YouTube account hacked; attacker just changed the title and thumbnail of #Despacito Song, the most-viewed YouTube video with over 5 billion views.

Kuroi'SH is the same hacker who hacked @nowthisnews and @bbcarabicalerts Twitter accounts last week. pic.twitter.com/gKeLoJGUVm

— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) April 10, 2018

Although, Luis Fonsi's Despacito is not the only victim of this hack, some other top musician videos have been defaced by these hackers like those by Drake, DJ Snake, Iggy Azalea, Marroon 5, Shakira, Calvin Harris and Selena Gomez.

Despacito just broke the record as the most watched YouTube Video, the first video with over 5 billion views just yesterday, only to be deleted by hackers the next day. Its also holds the record of the most streamed song ever on Spotify with over 4.6 billion streams.