{"id":54399,"date":"2025-01-28T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-pauls-youtube-channel-was-hacked-for-fake-iphone-promotion-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:15:33","slug":"logan-pauls-youtube-channel-was-hacked-for-fake-iphone-promotion-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-pauls-youtube-channel-was-hacked-for-fake-iphone-promotion-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul\u2019s YouTube channel was hacked for fake iPhone promotion &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul\u2019s YouTube channel was hacked for fake iPhone promotion Following the announcements of Apple\u2019s new iPhone XS line came a serious breach of privacy to one of YouTube\u2019s biggest stars. A video was uploaded to Logan Paul\u2019s channel, asking users to click a link in the description to claim a free iPhone X. The 21-second video, simply titled \u2018GIVEAWAY ?!\u2019 garnered over 9.1K views before being deleted from his channel. However, it appears that a second video was also uploaded under a different title, this one named \u2018GIVING AWAY 1500 IPHONES?!?!\u2019 It gained over 124,000 views before being deleted, and reportedly live for nearly two hours. Massive YouTuber and Drama Alert host KEEMSTAR took to Twitter to warn viewers that the video was a scam, stating that the link in the video\u2019s description led to a virus. He addressed kids in particular, knowing that a few gullible souls might fall prey to the hacker\u2019s shady tactics. One Twitter user bravely tested the scam, and stated that the link led to a series of \u201cinfinite giveaway ads\u201d as seen on other websites. This isn\u2019t the first time one of the Paul brothers has been hacked, either \u2013 Jake Paul responded to an alleged hack in December of 2017 to his YouTube channel and Instagram account. Logan has made no comment on iPhone giveaway video, which was posted on September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul\u2019s YouTube channel was hacked for fake iPhone promotion Following the announcements of Apple\u2019s new iPhone XS line came a serious breach of privacy to one of YouTube\u2019s biggest stars. A video was uploaded to Logan Paul\u2019s channel, asking users to click a link in the description to claim a free iPhone X. The [&hellip;]<\/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-54399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54399","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=54399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}