Crypto based video making YouTubers fall victim to hacking and scamming attempt

Many of the affected accounts noticed the fraudulent videos and removed them from their channels within minutes of them being posted.

Hackers attacked a number of popular crypto based video making YouTube accounts at some point during the afternoon of 23rd January . The accounts posted unauthorized videos with text directing viewers to send money to the hacker's wallet.

The Accounts which were attacked by the Hackers are as follow

• BitBoy Crypto

• Altcoin Buzz

• Box Mining

• Floyd Mayweather

• Ivan on Tech

• The Moon

The Binance Smart Chain wallet address that was listed on the fraudulent videos only had a total number of 9 transactions in BNB at the time of writing, with a total value of around $850.

YouTube channel "Boxmining" noticed that a video which was not uploaded by him and deleted it within 2 minutes. He said that “Luckily we caught it within two mins of the video going live and managed to delete it,” he said. “By that time there were already views and comments from my community.”

He also added that he had done an internal sweep and found no viruses or bugs that may have given the hackers access to his YouTube account. “Seems like YouTube might be responsible,” he said.