IVE, Monsta X YouTube channels hacked and renamed 'SpaceX'

The YouTube channels of IVE, Monsta X, Cravity and Starship Entertainment were hacked and renamed SpaceX, with all content delisted. The agency is working with YouTube to recover the accounts and content.

Girl group IVE [STARSHIP ENTERTAINMENT]

The official YouTube channels of IVE, Monsta X, Cravity and Starship Entertainment, the agency that represents all three groups, were hacked on Monday afternoon.

The names of the channels were all changed to “SpaceX,” and all of their content, including the artists' music videos, was delisted.

“We are currently working with YouTube to solve the issue and are trying to recover the accounts,” Starship Entertainment said Monday afternoon.

“We will try our best to recover all the content originally uploaded to the channels. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

Starship Entertainment’s YouTube channel had a total of 6.22 million subscribers as of Monday, while IVE’s official YouTube channel had 3.37 million, followed by Monsta X with 2.57 million and Cravity with 793,000.

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BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]