YouTube is experiencing an egregious bitcoin hack that no one is fixingA handful of high-level YouTube accounts have been hacked for the purpose of streaming a bitcoin scam.
What you need to know
Apple leaker Jon Prosser's YouTube account was hacked.
Prosser is one of a handful of high-profile accounts that have been hacked.
The hack appears to have been going on for a while now.
Update, August 6 (05:20 am ET) Overnight, a Bitcoin scam livestreamed on Front Page Tech reached over 100,000 viewers, likely faked through botting to push the video onto people's frontpages. As noted by Rene Ritchie, at one point YouTube was recommending the video to users. Jon Prosser has confirmed that the channel's 2FA was "bypassed", possibly by a sim swap, and that hackers had made $4,000 in Bitcoin so far. At about 7pm ET, Prosser Tweeted noting that all the videos on Front Page Tech had been deleted, a couple of hours later, the entire channel had gone from YouTube. It is unclear at this time whether the channel has been deleted maliciously, or taken down by YouTub...
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YouTube is experiencing an egregious bitcoin hack that no one is fixing
