Vietnamese Hacker changed Alan Walker 'MV' and 'Alone' MV names to advertise his personal YouTube channel

Recently, a Vietnamese Hacker is said to have attacked two "Faded" hits with 2.1 billion views and "Alone" with more than 800 million views on YouTube by young DJ Alan Walker. This hacker changed his name and annotated on the 2 MVs into Vietnamese with an ad text for a personal YouTube music channel.

Specifically, the "Alone" MV was renamed by this hacker "Alan Walker - Alone (Alone) - You over the channel" *** 8D music "listen to music", while the "Faded" music video was renamed. "Alan Walker - FADED - You guys over the channel" *** 8D Music "listen to music".

After 30 minutes, both "Faded" and "Alone" MVs were renamed.

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Photos posted on Facebook by user Mong Van Hung.

In order to avoid a similar incident, DJ Alan Walker locked the "contribute translation" feature to the title and video description, the lyrics were still open to the public. After this problem, all views, subscribed users, channel likes are not affected.

The owner of YouTube channel music is inserted into the 2 MVs owned by Hoang. H in Hanoi. This channel was just created last week and there are no signups yet.

Many theorize that this hacker changed the video title by taking advantage of the flaw from the "translation translation" tool on YouTube. This tool allows users to contribute lyrics translations, titles and video descriptions to Vietnamese. These translations will be passed without strict censorship, the name and description of the video will be renamed.

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The translation contribution feature gives users the right to edit the title, description and lyrics for the MV.

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After detecting the problem, the YouTube channel owner has blocked the contribution feature of the translation for the title and video description.

This is not the first time the haker 'peeked in' to the MVs with a terrible view. In April 2018, Prosox hackers also "wiped out" Despacito hits with more than 5 billion views of singer Luis Fonsi from YouTube, and infiltrated and renamed a series of MT hits in the Vevo network. . Soon after, the MV Despacito was restored. The culprit of this hack was also arrested.

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Earlier, a series of popular Vevo music videos were hacked.

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The above unfortunate incidents show that YouTube needs to further strengthen security. This is also a warning to users, need to be careful, not to disclose personal information to others.

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