Indian Youtuber Ajey Nagar popularly known by his YouTube channel's name- Carry Minati had been in headline for his YouTube vs TikTok video.
Apart from Carry Minati, Ajey also runs a YouTube channel called CarryisLive through which he mainly posts gaming videos and Live streaming of games. This second account had fell victim of prey. The hacker streamed two videos of a bitcoin scam asking people to donate to a specific account. The hack was reported Saturday morning by his fans. The stream of Carry disappeared and suddenly bitcoin donation stream appeared to viewers.
There were two streams made by hacker, one of them was asking users to donate coins to particular account and the other was scamming in the name of funding Assam floods.
Nagar asked YouTube for assistance after the hack.
He tweeted:
Similar hacks reported just two weeks ago where Crypto-currency scamers hacked twitter accounts some popular personalities including Bill Gates.
The twitter accounts Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffay and many were hacked two weeks ago. The scammers who hacked these twitter accounts posted a tweet from Bill Gate and Musk's account which had a bitcoin wallet link. Along with this wallet address, a message promising that, double amount of bitcoins will be sent back to the users sending certain amount to the wallet first was there.
Carry's fans blamed YouTube's security for this breach. Fans posted memes on twitter and Instagram blaming YouTube security. After such incidents on Twitter and YouTube, there is atmosphere of havoc among the users of other social media as well.
Some memes shared by fans:
However, the two live streams are not visible on YouTube. Both the streams have dissapear from the channel, either they not post it or YouTube took them down. Other channel of Ajey Nagar had not shown any signs of hack or tamper.