We have been seeing cases of YouTube accounts getting hacked over the past few years and today, we’ve been a victim of a very similar hack that happened with others.
Earlier today, our YouTube account was hacked, which eventually led to our account being banned. This happened last night when most of our team was sleeping, but luckily one of us managed to get a few screenshots for proof. But by the time we changed our password, the damage was done and YouTube banned our account.
We had 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) enabled on our YouTube channel and there are no traces of any managing accounts being hacked either. So we are still investigating how hackers managed to hack into our channel.
That said, we apologize if you were tricked by one of the videos that you saw on our channel earlier today. The hackers used a strategy very similar to what we have seen before. They started a live stream crypto fundraising with Elon Musk in the video. They also added a bunch of crypto-related fundraisers to our channel, again with Elon Musk in the thumbnail.
We don’t think these videos were up for long, but the damage was already done. Our YouTube account was banned and years of our hard work on this channel is now at risk.
As many of you may have noticed, we’ve been putting a lot of effort into our channel recently, trying to bring detailed reviews and comparisons about smartphones and other devices. So it’s extremely saddening to see we are now at risk of losing our hard work because of a random hack.
We are currently in talks with YouTube to reinstate our account, but we don’t know how long will it take. YouTube’s support is known to be pretty slow to process these requests, but we hope that our account gets reinstated soon so that we can continue to make videos for you guys.
Finally, I wish YouTube could fix its system to avoid these hacks. As I have seen in many cases before, even 2FA hasn’t been able to stop YouTube accounts from being hacked. Clearly, YouTube needs to make significant changes in the login system to ensure our accounts are safe. Most YouTubers put all their life into their channels, spending days making a single video. So it’s extremely disappointing that hackers are able to gain access to this on a regular basis.
That said, I’m looking forward to getting access to our account and making videos again. We have a lot of interesting videos in the pipeline, but unfortunately, we have no idea how long we’ll have to wait to get our account reinstated. Hopefully, it’ll be soon.
Thanks for being a part of Gizmochina, and we are looking forward to posting more videos via YouTube in the coming days. Till then, please continue to read Gizmochina.com and stay tuned for more updates related to our YouTube channel.
