Reckful\u2019s YouTube channel hacked to promote fake Elon Musk Bitcoin scam Instagram\/byron.bernstein\/PixabayThe YouTube channel belonging to late Twitch streamer Byron \u2018Reckful\u2019 Bernstein was the latest to be hacked in order to promote a fake Elon Musk Bitcoin scam. Multiple Twitch channels have been taken over by hackers to push crypto scams onto unsuspecting viewers in recent weeks, but now YouTube has also become a prime target. The rise of fake Bitcoin \u201cgiveaway\u201d Twitch streams first began in 2020, but they\u2019ve recently resurfaced, taking over Twitch\u2019s Just Chatting category and even other accounts, such as Fedmyster\u2019s, which was banned from the platform. On April 18, the account belonging to late Twitch streamer Reckful was the latest to be seized by hackers in an effort to push their scam. Reckful\u2019s YouTube hacked In screenshots posted to Twitter, Reckful\u2019s account hosted a live broadcast titled \u201cTesla CEO Elon Musk will start pump cryptocurrency\u201d in what the hackers tried to make appear as an official Tesla event. Luckily, the hack didn\u2019t last long, as it was restored to its original state a couple of hours later, but many were still furious that Reckful\u2019s account was targeted to begin with. On the popular LiveStreamFail Reddit, users voiced anger that hackers had gone after Reckful of all people, calling the act \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d @Youtube Reckful\u2019s channel was hacked pic.twitter.com\/vRqeaPEyeF \u2014 connor (@golden_xp_) April 18, 2022 \u201cThis makes me sick, it\u2019s like destroying tombstones in a cemetery,\u201d one said. Others praised Reckful\u2019s mods for handling the situation and getting the account back under control, but it seems like there is no end to these ongoing scams as they continue to plague Twitch and YouTube. So far, neither company has commented on the hacks, but hopefully, they\u2019re able to put some measures in place to prevent them from happening so frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reckful\u2019s YouTube channel hacked to promote fake Elon Musk Bitcoin scam Instagram\/byron.bernstein\/PixabayThe YouTube channel belonging to late Twitch streamer Byron \u2018Reckful\u2019 Bernstein was the latest to be hacked in order to promote a fake Elon Musk Bitcoin scam. Multiple Twitch channels have been taken over by hackers to push crypto scams onto unsuspecting viewers in […]<\/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-58381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58381","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=58381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}