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Rairii

@ipg ok, who ran a redline stealer this time

Emma

502 videos now, they're making everything unlisted

Emma

within 13 minutes, now down to just 13 videos

Emma

the bitcoin scam streams are now set to private

Emma

they're trying to take back the channel it looks like?

Emma

the fact that YouTube hasn't had anyone step in (except to change channel metadata, which the "hackers" have played into with their new stream titles) and the streams are still ongoing shows that their response times for account compromise are terrible

they could have just not allowed a huge verified channel to be able to have their username/display name changed so freely, they could have caught out "Tesla" as a name commonly used in scams, they could have someone at Google's moderation team who can freeze the channel's activity (considering a channel with a recent strike can't stream at all, this should be *trivial*)

the fact that YouTube hasn't had anyone step in (except to change channel metadata, which the "hackers" have played into with their new stream titles) and the streams are still ongoing shows that their response times for account compromise are terrible

they could have just not allowed a huge verified channel to be able to have their username/display name changed so freely, they could have caught out "Tesla" as a name commonly used in scams, they could have someone at Google's moderation team who...

Stephan H. Wissel

@ipg Google needs to get serious about protecting their 2FA

Trantion

@ipg Ah, Elon Musk, that famous pillar of wise judgement!

sub_o

@ipg 1. YouTube support is kinda useless for a multi billion dollar company, this is not the first time this hack happened, and it's not even a different video

2. Yeap, Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey, the faces of crypto scams.

t3rminus

@ipg looks like the hackers deleted all the videos too. The only ones I see on the channel are 7 years old.

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Guess someone needed a tech tip on how not to get hacked
That's gotta be quite a blow to the business

Ahri Boy πŸ’™πŸ’›:blobhajtransprideheart:

@ipg@wetdry.world one of news orgs from the Philippines got their YouTube channel hacked last morning

Alice
@ipg they back online and reuploading all the 10+ years of content at once :aiwow:
Luna Lactea

@ipg It's ridiculous how often this scam happens. YouTube makes too much money to care though, it doesn't affect their revenue at all so they're not concerned with enforcing their terms of service or protecting users.

Shokunin

@ipg the mods YouTube employs run these scams. That’s how they get fiddle with permissions to take over channels that did have good security.

Aral Balkan

@ipg Looks like Google have handled it in their own special way.

Ganderonus

@aral
Getting hacked is against community guidelines? Seems quite harsh... πŸ˜†
@ipg

Gallen NFC#3536

@ipg
*Checks date* oh, it's not April 1st. Ooops...

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@ipg I noticed this earlier! The hackers unlisted/unprivated a lot of videos before completely nuking the channel, which was incredibly odd. Only have this one screen shot.

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