Neebs Gaming, a highly popular YouTube gaming channel boasting of 1.88 million subscribers, was hacked over the weekend by unidentified crypto scammers, who changed its name and banner to Coinbase Pro to collect Bitcoin from its viewers/subscribers.
According to a Reddit user “Bamila,” the scammers used the name of Coinbase Pro’s CEO Brian Armstrong to lure the viewers into clicking a link that promised free Bitcoin giveaways. They live-streamed a video titled “Coinbase CEO announced the greatest crypto Air-Drop 10,000 Bitcoin, Live,” offering viewers up to 10-times more returns if they send bitcoin to the given wallet address.
Moreover, the hackers stole footage from one of the live AMA videos Armstrong made in April 2019 and used it in their livestream video, which was watched by about 95,000 people. So far, the Bitcoin address mentioned in the video has received over 20 different transactions and accumulated around 2.465 BTC (US$24,000).
Screenshot of the hacked/defaced YouTube channel.
The incident was confirmed by Neebs Gaming promptly on Saturday, February 15 and in a series of Tweets the channel can be seen complaining about how unresponsive and unhelpful YouTube has been in this issue. The channel remained hijacked until February 17, which is definitely a concerning issue for the platform’s community of ..
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