MTG YouTuber Targeted By Massive Hacking Scandal

This Tesla Live hack is pretty recent, but it has been going on for at least the past six months. The scam is affecting YouTubers of various sizes, from people with a few thousand subscribers to gigantic internet personalities like 100thieves’s Valkyrae, who had her account with 3.79 million subscribers hacked just last week. This video from Youtuber Akiradr13 explains what the hack looks like on Youtube and how people may be falling for this scam. I will reiterate here that these hacks probably don’t have anything to do with Tesla themselves, but Elon Musk did create an MTG card featuring his dog last year.

McCreamy, a Fortnite YouTuber with more than eight million subscribers, lost his account to the Tesla Live hack about six months ago. This was the most prominent YouTuber affected Akiradr13 covered, and this video goes over what McCreamy experienced during the hacking process. Fortunately, it looks like McCreamy has made a decent recovery and is back to making YouTube videos.

Recovery May Not be Easy

One topic that McCreamy and many other YouTubers talked about extensively was that getting help for recovering their channels has been a prolonged process. In Valkyrae’s case, it took her multiple days before YouTube responded to the Twitter message posted above. As of the writing of this article, she seems to have her account back, but six days have passed since she was Tweeted out about her channel being hacked.

Once you get YouTube’s attention, however, it seems that a full recovery is possible over a few days. There are various YouTubers with their accounts of falling for this scheme. The one thing that appears similar to all of their stories is that they got lured into a collaboration designed to target their channel that wasn’t real and downloaded something that caused the hack. For those potentially targetable by this, ensure you do everything you can to screen potential collaborations you receive through email, especially when they want you to download links. Hopefully, the community will not have to wait too long before EDH Deckbuilding returns to YouTube.

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