2020 March - My channel, Pixel Rookie was just hacked and stolen. Looking for help.

Long story short, my computer was compromised and even though I have 2 Step Verification enabled on my personal and YouTube account, they were still able to access my account through a virus.

I spent about 5 hours yesterday using a password management tool (Dashlane in case you were interested... I would most certainly recommend it at this point) and went through all of my logins to secure them from my work laptop that wasn't compromised.

The activity stopped yesterday evening and I thought everything was good.

That was until about 2 hours ago, I tried logging into my account, www.youtube.com/pixelrookie and I see that I no longer have that channel associated with my business email address and I see that an hour AFTER it happened, there was an email in my Spam folder informing me that my request to move ownership of my channel was completed...

Here is a link of references to the attack on my account, even though I already had 2FA enabled and declined access from foreign countries. It also shows that my official pixel rookie email address does not have access to my channel: https://imgur.com/a/Vfj0bst

I also just got an email from someone stating that they are trying to sell my channel.

I've had the channel for about 3 years and I just hit 20,000 subscribers last week - needless to say, I value my channel a lot and I am a little desperate right now.

I submitted a ticket to YouTube support but their live chat is unavailable right now and the email ticket could take multiple days to be received, especially since it is Friday.

If you could please retweet this post and please help me get YouTube's attention to try and get my channel back, I would really appreciate it: https://twitter.com/Pixelrookie/status/1241116665380835335

Thanks guys. I am very grateful for any help. Be careful out there and DON'T USE THE SAME 2 PASSWORDS FOR LITERALLY EVERYTHING LIKE I DID :(

https://redd.it/fm4iw2
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2020 March - YouTube warns of increased video removals during Covid-19 crisis

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/youtube-warns-of-increased-video-removals-during-covid-19-crisis/

https://redd.it/fk7um6
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2020 March - Children's Recitals EXPLOITED by Music Publishers Aided by False Youtube CONTENTID Matches
https://youtu.be/CEQQ6zkuc2U

https://redd.it/fiypll
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2020 February - Meme channel 'Galactic Hole' has been hacked and is now posting political (right wing) videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPikWj7oT-4OUrPUj7oyJ2Q/videos

https://redd.it/f8fwnl
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2020 February - ChilledCow, channel for the iconic Lofi HipHop Music Stream, gets terminated
https://twitter.com/ChilledCow/status/1231154392700727296?s=20

https://redd.it/f7t5ga
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2020 February For those unaware of the Cryptocurrency Hack going around here's a news article about it detailing the issue.
https://www.newsweek.com/cryptocurrency-scam-target-youtube-phony-brand-deal-how-spot-fake-1488098

https://redd.it/f7ker2
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2020 February - Solar Sands, an art commentary channel with 465k subscribers, gets a strike for using a stock image in his latest video.
https://redd.it/f6tbz9
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2020 February - "Neebs Gaming" [1.9m subs] (and their animation channel, "Hank & Jed" [450k subs]) gets stolen by "Coinbase Pro" and "Ledger Wallet" BTC scammers.

* [https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/neebsgaming](https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/neebsgaming)
* [https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/hankandjed](https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/hankandjed)
* [https://twitter.com/NeebsOfficial](https://twitter.com/NeebsOfficial)
* Feb 15: "URGENT: It looks like our YouTube account has been hacked. PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN OUR VIDEOS. Hackers are known for attaching bogus links to hacked accounts. we will keep you posted once the situation has been resolved YouTube please help us with this"
* Feb 16: "Update: we have a contact that YouTube that just escalated the situation. The videos that are being shown now on Neebs Gaming and Hank and Jed, without a permission, are promoting a scam and malicious activity. Again, please don't click on any links until we know it's safe."
* Feb 17: "Update: We still don't have access to our channels but we know that YT is working on it. Obviously, it's not happening as fast as we want it to but hopefully we won't have to wait much longer. We can't thank you guys enough for your continued support. We'll keep you posted"
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/NeebsGaming/comments/f4c4wr/urgent\_neebs\_gaming\_youtube\_channel\_was\_hacked/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NeebsGaming/comments/f4c4wr/urgent_neebs_gaming_youtube_channel_was_hacked/)

To be honest, I don't even know who they were, I just saw *yet another* btc scam live stream show up in my subscriptions feed, and googled the channel name. I figured it out (through google images) that they used to make an animated cartoon called "Battlefield Friends", with this character: [https://imgur.com/pFoBiad](https://imgur.com/pFoBiad) \- I must have subscribed to that channel years ago and forgot about it. Did a little more digging and found their twitter and subreddit and those updates they posted.

https://redd.it/f5ifll
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2020 February Technology Connections entire channel demonetized due to "reused content".

In case you are lost or living below a rock, this dude makes amazing original content on retro tech, films 99.9999999999% of every bit of video, scripts, edits, etc.

https://twitter.com/TechConnectify/status/1227932868028043264?s=19

This is some bull.

EDIT:
He got it back :D

https://redd.it/f39dgp
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2020 February - Strength and fitness YouTubers Juji and Tom get a power lifting meet video demonetized because of "nudity", there is none.
https://redd.it/f2o1co
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2020 February - Fortnite YouTuber LG Razz actually gets stolen channel back
https://twitter.com/razzjoey/status/1226445340431306755?s=21

https://redd.it/f1g71t
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2020 February - Tod's Workshop has been hijacked by a bitcoin scammer called "Binance English".
/r/youtube/comments/f0n2bw/account_fd_help_tods_workshop_get_his_channel/

https://redd.it/f0oe3k
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2020 February - LEGO stopmotion channel with almost 400K subscribers, BrickBrosProductions, has been hacked and taken over by Russian Bitcoin scammers.
https://twitter.com/ProsBrick/status/1224839078312583168

https://redd.it/eztnxi
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2020 February - YouTube demonetizes Vintage Crime and Horror Stories videos on YouTuber Obsolete Oddities channel.
https://youtu.be/2Mq7RnDPaA0

https://redd.it/ezfdwt
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2020 January - ReviewTechUSA calls out "Immortal" John Hancock for filing strikes to get videos criticizing him removed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-KTrmGdbK4

https://redd.it/ezh09g
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2020 February: CBS Gets Angry Joe's YouTube Review Of 'Picard' Taken Down For Using 26 Seconds Of The Show's Trailer
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200128/10284943817/cbs-gets-angry-joes-youtube-review-picard-taken-down-using-26-seconds-shows-trailer.shtml

https://redd.it/ez0195
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2020 February - YouTuber @NadgeyFelicia gets channel hacked by BitCoin scammers, followed by YouTube terminating the channel due to violating the spam policy
https://twitter.com/nadgeyfelicia/status/1224675002139602950

https://redd.it/eypofb
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2020 February - Ex-Moderator and Social Media Manager for “Have a Seat with Chris Hansen” files a multitude of copyright strikes against channels critical of his actions despite not owning any copyright or even working for the show anymore.
https://youtu.be/JX8SAXe48Mk

https://redd.it/eyz1jl
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2020 January - splatMeggy gets one of his channels taken down by blatantly fake copyright strikes from a troll

https://twitter.com/splatmeggy/status/1220144569787904000?s=21

https://redd.it/esoitg
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2020 January: C&Rsenal manages to get remonetized after getting in contact with someone at YouTube who got their case reexamined by the people in charge of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeuU46xrEJE&feature=youtu.be

https://redd.it/epf7x9
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2020 January - Ethereum Foundation/Binance Bit Coin Mass Youtube hack.

The Ethereum Foundation on bitcoin has done a mass youtube hack, hacking large channels and then live streaming on the channels.

Searching some keywords and sorting by live you can see live streams on hacked channels here

Channels hacked include but are not limited to... (Wayback Machine Links)

Pogo

The K Family Vlogs

NourElDinx

Songs Compilation

Indian gaming channel (No wayback available)

Batman4014



There are a ton more, its a shame to see this going on

Edit:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hankandjed/

and Neebs gaming was hacked!

https://redd.it/ep9m1e
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