Hackers hijack popular YouTuber Scott the Woz\u2019s Twitter account YouTube\/Scott The WozPopular gaming YouTuber Scott \u2018Scott The Woz\u2019 Wozniak had his Twitter account taken over by hackers on December 29. Scott The Woz is one of the most popular gaming channels on YouTube, boasting over 1.25 million subscribers on the platform while his Twitter has just under 300,000. On December 29, the YouTuber mysteriously had all of his previous tweets deleted and replaced with either nonsensical posts or retweets of pro-hacking websites. \u201cLike this and Scott gets his sh*t back within the hour,\u201d one of the hackers said in a post advertising a website by an individual named YARIS. It\u2019s unclear if YARIS is the same person who gained access to Scott\u2019s account, but it had been created as early as April 2009. With the account under the hackers\u2019 control, the antics continued with \u201cScott\u201d posting racist and homophobic slurs. Scott\u2019s Twitter handle was also changed to advertise the hacking website. Fans of Wozniak, however, decided to fight back and issue mass reports to Twitter, telling the platform that Scott\u2019s account had been hacked in an attempt to save it. As of this moment, the account remains in the hackers\u2019 control. So far, Scott has yet to comment on the hack and it\u2019s unclear if he\u2019s even aware that it has happened at all. 2020 has been a wild year for Twitter hacks. In July, a hacker took over Elon Musk, Mr Beast, Bill Gates and more in a massive Bitcoin scam. TO EVERYONE READING THIS Report @\/TW33TR_com They hacked Scott’s account and are currently defacing it entirely. Below is an image that’ll show you which option to press when you report. Please RT to share this around!! pic.twitter.com\/7sg4N5rzbS \u2014 \u2727kathy\u2727 (@cloudyberries_) December 29, 2020 Later on, in August, Twitch superstar Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel fell victim to a similar hack as the one facing Scott The Woz. The French Canadian\u2019s account started posting messages such as \u201cf**k you xqc we own u BRO\u201d and promoted the hacker\u2019s friends. Nonetheless, Scott is just the latest victim of widespread hacks facing the social media site. It will be interesting to see if any others take place before the year\u2019s end and if Twitter can implement better defenses in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hackers hijack popular YouTuber Scott the Woz\u2019s Twitter account YouTube\/Scott The WozPopular gaming YouTuber Scott \u2018Scott The Woz\u2019 Wozniak had his Twitter account taken over by hackers on December 29. Scott The Woz is one of the most popular gaming channels on YouTube, boasting over 1.25 million subscribers on the platform while his Twitter has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}