YouTube accounts of Tanmay Bhat, Aishwarya Mohanraj, Abdu Rozik under cyberattack

The accounts of in style YouTubers Tanmay Bhat, Aishwarya Mohanraj and former ‘Bigg Boss’ contestant Abdu Rozik have come under cyberattack. Similarly, Barkha Dutt’s Mojo Story was additionally hacked and all the content material, together with 11,000 movies, was deleted.

Tanmay, whose Gmail account too was hacked, options US automotive firm Tesla’s image on his YouTube web page, the channel even reside streamed the corporate’s occasion. His channel nonetheless had 473 movies. The channel, which has over 4 million subscribers, has no content material on its web page now.

Tanmay has claimed the two-factor authentication was breached in his case.

Mojo Story’s content material was deleted regardless of “hours of urging YouTube to behave” and being assured that “motion is being taken”, Dutt mentioned. “This may have been stopped… now, it is gone.”

“After hours of urging @TeamYouTube to behave & being assured motion is being taken, I woke as much as discover @themojostory channel content material ALL DELETED by the hackers- 4 years of blood, toil, sweat, tears, 11 thousand movies, COVID work of 3 years, ALL GONE. I’m heartbroken,” Barkha Dutt mentioned on Twitter.

Similarly, Aishwarya Mohanraj’s channelwhich has greater than 70,000 subscribers options Tesla’s image with 2 reside streams of a Tesla occasion.

Given Elon Musk’s on-line reputation, hackers have impersonated him up to now to perpetrate varied sorts of scams. Even posing as a enterprise account of Musk-owned Tesla is not fully new. The reside streams being run by these hackers carry superimposed messages that aggressively nudge customers to scan a QR code on the display.

Abdu, who has over 1 million subscribers on YouTubeadditionally confronted the assault from hackers. His channel too has been flooded with movies of tutorials on crack software program.

These sequence of incidents have left content material creators in shock. Many have tried to make sure their backup was prepared and properly organised if their accounts had been met with related destiny.