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Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following 'Massive' Hack Attack
High-profile YouTubers have been targeted by cybercriminals over the weekend in what appears to have been a highly coordinated and "massive" attack. The security warning was made by Catalin Cimpanu, a ZDNet reporter, who spoke to a member of an internet forum with a history of trading access to hacked accounts. Here's what we know so far and what you need to do to protect your own YouTube account.
According to the ZDNet investigation, many accounts belonging to well-known YouTubers within the car community appear to have been hijacked. However, it would also appear the attack itself has been directed mostly towards "influencers" across many YouTube channel genres. Amongst those taking to Twitter to complain about their YouTube accounts being hacked and access to their channels lost, were YouTubers covering technology, music, gaming and Disney. With more than 23 million YouTube channels, anyone who creates content should be heeding this warning though.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday September 26 2019, @02:27PM (5 children)
Yeah, so maybe you should start listening.
Google itself is not secure, united states or israeli spies have the capacity to just do this with the basic access they have, and they have every interest in doing so at this point.
Why people think google admins are above this type of suspicion just because of branding, in 2019, is pretty pretty absurd. When you use a platform like that, you have no actual thing to trust besides this name. It is literally like trying to stand on a cloud, there is no there there, you fall right through till you hit the ground at high velocity.
If that many accounts can be hacked at once, at all, the entire company is incompetent, not a market leader, and anyone using it from here on out will be willfully, intentionally choosing this for themselves. I already think they are.
Every source of alternative credibility is being attacked.
Get. It. Through. Your. Head.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 26 2019, @02:37PM (4 children)
I'm passing gas. A lot of gas. Does this make me an "influencer"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 26 2019, @03:41PM (3 children)
If you're not part of the solution, then you are part of the pollution!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 26 2019, @04:08PM (2 children)
But, my gas goes into solution, in the atmosphere.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 26 2019, @10:01PM
Is it the final solution?
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Friday September 27 2019, @10:01AM
Gas, gas, gas I'm gonna step on the gas.
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956