YouTube Hacker '@lospelaosbro' Breaks Into Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, Justin Bieber And Other Major Artist Accounts To Sh**post Videos

The YouTube accounts of big-name musicians like Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, Eminem, Justin Bieber and others were hacked this morning, with each musician's channel posting an inane sh**post before evidence of the hack was deleted. Twitter user @lospelaosbro, which purportedly takes its name from a Latin pop group, has claimed credit for the hack and is currently gloating about its success on the platform.

Just hacked Juice Wrld.

— Los Pelaos (@lospelaosbro) April 5, 2022

Most of the hacked accounts posted a seemingly random video called "Free Paco Sanz," which featured the titular Sanz, currently in prison for defrauding people by faking a terminal illness, playing a backward-facing guitar with EDM music dubbed over the footage. Other clips also appeared on high-profile YouTube channels earlier today, such as one of YouTuber iShowSpeed rapping under the title "Daddy Yankee – SPEED IS THE BEST HACKED BY @LOSPELAOSBRO ON TWITTER" that was featured on Harry Styles' channel. Another upload featured the song "La Raja de Tu Falda" by the Spanish rock duo Estopa, which was posted to Michael Jackson's channel under the title "i like ki. ds @LOSPELAOSBRO."

ACABAN DE HACKEAR A TRAVIS SCOTT EN YOUTUBE Y SUBEN ESTO JDJSJDJAJAJ

Free Paco Sanz pic.twitter.com/JRIEAn9Sks

— AlexisFdz (@ZyxerY) April 5, 2022

According to Business Insider, which covered the hack this morning, the video from lospelaosbro of Paco Sanz was online for almost a full hour before it was finally taken off the various YouTube channels.

It's unclear how exactly @lospelaosbro, whose Twitter bio reads "official account of the criminal group Los Pelaos," was able to pull off such a widespread hack. Cybersecurity experts told The Daily Mail that it's possible the celebrities may be using a third-party service to manage their accounts, and that service was hacked. Another possibility is that a YouTube employee with access to high-profile account details could have been hacked, similar to the July 2020 Twitter hack.

On Twitter, user TitanicWRLD999 theorized that the hackers found an exploit on Vevo, which distributes music videos to the high-profile YouTube accounts, and were able to pull off the hack that way.

According to @lospelaosbro, they claim the hacks were done as a way to sell cybersecurity. However, by the tenor of the account's tweets, it's unclear if this claim is sincere.

we selling security if u don't wanna be hacked lmao
not for everyone, just celebs.

— Los Pelaos (@lospelaosbro) April 5, 2022