YouTube’s music video for the hit song Despacito, which has had over five billion views, has been hacked.
The clip’s cover image was replaced with a photo showing a group of people wearing masks and pointing guns.
The video was temporarily taken offline until the problem was fixed.
But videos by more than a dozen other artists posted by the music hosting service Vevo – including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Drake and Taylor Swift – were also affected.
The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’sh, had replaced some of the videos’ titles with their own messages, including a call to “free Palestine” alongside their own nicknames.
