I was hijacked on Christmas day by malicious hackers through one of my back-up editors who had his gmail completely hacked. As an editor you have plenty of permissions/tools on the channel such as: uploading videos, change channel name (apparently) and even run livestreams. The hackers re-branded the whole channel to a crypto-profile and ran a livestream trying to scam people on money. As a result to this Youtube nuked and removed my channel for violating TOS. All this took place while I was away on Christmas celebrations, completely unaware of the whole situation. Thankfully many alert subscribers tried to contact me and reported this illegal activity to Youtube which made them take down the channel faster and reduce more damage.
It's been very rough and stressful past days trying to recover the channel but in the end we succeeded. Thank you so much for your understanding and patience throughout this process. I had a scheduled upload for Christmas day (just before I got hijacked), this video will go up tonight instead but of course with an updated intro. Again, thanks for your patience. I hope you could sleep and eat your food anyways.
BorasLegend
Hey my friends,
The channel is back!!!
I was hijacked on Christmas day by malicious hackers through one of my back-up editors who had his gmail completely hacked. As an editor you have plenty of permissions/tools on the channel such as: uploading videos, change channel name (apparently) and even run livestreams. The hackers re-branded the whole channel to a crypto-profile and ran a livestream trying to scam people on money. As a result to this Youtube nuked and removed my channel for violating TOS. All this took place while I was away on Christmas celebrations, completely unaware of the whole situation. Thankfully many alert subscribers tried to contact me and reported this illegal activity to Youtube which made them take down the channel faster and reduce more damage.
It's been very rough and stressful past days trying to recover the channel but in the end we succeeded. Thank you so much for your understanding and patience throughout this process. I had a scheduled upload for Christmas day (just before I got hijacked), this video will go up tonight instead but of course with an updated intro. Again, thanks for your patience. I hope you could sleep and eat your food anyways.
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES!!!
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