HandOfBlood hacked: standard YouTuber’s channel plunges into chaos

Hänno aka HandofBlood has at the moment misplaced his YouTube channel to hackers.

Berlin-based HandOfBlood is likely one of the largest and hottest YouTubers in Germany, and lots of Pointmmo readers are additionally amongst his subscribers. Therefore, lots of you might need been confused to the utmost, when over the weekend presumably a shady crypto livestream with Elon Musk popped up in your subscription feed.

The motive: Hackers have taken over Hänno’s channel to make use of it for a awful rip-off.

HandOfBlood’s channel plunges into chaos after hacker assault

What occurred? On Saturday afternoon, the primary followers reported that HandofBlood’s YouTube channel had disappeared. Instead of the influencer’s traditional content material, the channel solely featured a livestream by which controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk apparently talks about Bitcoin, Ethereum and different cryptocurrencies.

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This sort of hack occurred an increasing number of ceaselessly in latest weeks, amongst others, tuning skilled JP Performance was additionally affected.

By taking on main channels and taking part in unusual livestreams, the hackers wish to lure unknowing viewers to fraudulent web sites. These are then used to make provides à la Send Elon Musk one bitcoin, he’ll ship you two again marketed. Of course, if somebody falls for this trick, the cash is gone ceaselessly.

Where can we go from right here?

This sort of hacker assault is sadly not a rarity. At least we are able to inform you that affected channels might all the time be reset to their authentic state to date.

Link to the Twitter content

Also within the case of Hänno’s channel, YouTube Support is at the moment busy cleansing up the mess. For the moment, however, the channel has completely disappeared from the video platformYou will solely see an error message there on Monday afternoon. His second channel HandofUncut, which options longer Let’s Plays, is just not affected.

Of course we maintain our fingers crossed for HandofBlood that every part will likely be again to regular as quickly as attainable – in any case, he has been a good friend of Pointmmo for years.

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Among different issues, the YouTuber, whose actual title is Maximilian Knabe, delivered a terrific dubbed position as Adolf Hitler in our editorial episode on Wolfenstein 2. You can take heed to his voice beginning at minute 3:20. Hänno has additionally been in entrance of the digicam a number of occasions for joint codecs and collaborations with Maurice, who himself turned a full-time streamer in 2022.