Twitch streamer Super pleads for help after YouTube channel hacked in crypto scam Pixabay\/Blizzard EntertainmentPopular Twitch streamer and former Overwatch League pro Matthew \u2018Super\u2019 DeLisi was the latest victim of hackers taking control of YouTube channels to promote Elon Musk cryptocurrency scams. In the past few months, many Twitch streamers and YouTubers have had their accounts hijacked to push crypto scams with little being done to stop the continued attacks. On May 4, Super\u2019s YouTube channel was taken over by hackers, who changed the name of the page to \u201cArk Invest,\u201d and began broadcasting a fake Elon Musk Bitcoin conference. News of the hack caught the streamer off-guard who voiced his frustration on social media, pleading for YouTube to get his account back under his control. Hackers take over Super\u2019s YouTube account \u201cMy YouTube is somehow hacked. If you see some channel named \u2018Ark Invest\u2019 OR \u2018Sapphire Plugin,\u2019 these are my channels,\u201d the tank main said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how this happened or what to do. YouTubeCreators, please help me.\u201d The streamer further added that he had two-factor authentication enabled and had it on his account since 2015. \u201cThey got access some other way,\u201d he explained. STOP SAYING USE 2FA IVE READ LIKE 50 TIMES TO USE 2FA IVE HAD THAT BITCH ON SINCE 2015 IM NOT THAT STUPID. They got access some other way. \u2014 Matthew DeLisi (@supertf) May 4, 2022 A few hours later, the Elon Musk broadcast had stopped, along with every video on Super\u2019s channel being pulled. It\u2019s not clear if they were deleted or just unlisted. Despite the hackers using the name Ark Invest, the company has claimed they had nothing to do with the attack. Back in January, they addressed that some channels had been taken over. ARK is aware of hacked third-party YouTube channels fraudulently posing as ARK &\/or Cathie Wood. These accounts are impersonators & not affiliated with ARK or Cathie Wood in any way. ARK Invest will never use social media to solicit money, including cryptocurrency. Please report! \u2014 ARK Invest (@ARKInvest) January 21, 2022 \u201cThese accounts are impersonators & not affiliated with ARK\u2026 ARK Invest will never use social media to solicit money, including cryptocurrency.\u201d It\u2019s unknown if there is a group responsible for the hacks or one individual, but it seems like no one is off-limits. Last month, late streamer Byron \u2018Reckful\u2019 Bernstein had his channel taken over before being restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer Super pleads for help after YouTube channel hacked in crypto scam Pixabay\/Blizzard EntertainmentPopular Twitch streamer and former Overwatch League pro Matthew \u2018Super\u2019 DeLisi was the latest victim of hackers taking control of YouTube channels to promote Elon Musk cryptocurrency scams. In the past few months, many Twitch streamers and YouTubers have had their […]<\/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-62766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766","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=62766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}