In a current cyberattack, the official YouTube channel of comic Tanmay Bhat was hacked. The account, with over 4.4 million subscribers, was renamed because the ‘Tesla Corp’. The comic has posted a tweet saying that his YouTube and Gmail accounts have been hacked and the two-factor authentication breached. He tagged YouTube in his tweet looking for pressing assist. Moreover, the hackers have additionally deleted movies listed on his YouTube channel.
“@YouTube @Google @YouTubeIndia hello guys – my YouTube / gmail account has been hacked. 2FA by handed. Need assistance urgently. Pls DM!” the slapstick comedian tweeted.
Tanmay turned newest sufferer of the cyber-attack that has focused numerous different customers, like comedian-YouTuber Aishwarya Mohanraj and Abdu Rozik. Aishwarya’s channel which has greater than 70,000 subscribers options Tesla’s image with 2 dwell streams of a Tesla occasion. She additionally tweeted that her Gmail account has been compromised and she or he has misplaced entry to her YouTube account. “@TeamYouTube, hiya my gmail account has been hacked and I’ve misplaced entry to my YouTube channel as nicely are you able to pls assist?” Aishwarya wrote.
Moreover, they’ve even changed the quilt images of the YouTube channels with photos of Tesla automobiles. All these YouTube accounts are nonetheless not recovered. Whereas on some accounts the movies have been fully deleted, Tanmay’s channel nonetheless options 473 movies, however all of them are listed as non-public.
Given Elon Musk’s on-line recognition, hackers have impersonated him up to now to perpetrate numerous varieties of scams. Even posing as a enterprise account of Musk-owned Tesla is not completely new. The dwell streams being run by these hackers carry superimposed messages that aggressively nudge customers to scan a QR code on the display screen.
Abdu, who has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube additionally confronted the assault from hackers. His channel too has been flooded with movies of tutorials on crack softwares.
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