Former Overwatch pro super falls victim to hack by crypto scammers

sportskeeda.com:

Matthew "super" is the latest content creator to fall victim to a hack by cryptocurrency scammers.

The former Overwatch pro said on Twitter that his YouTube account had been hacked. He also said that his two channels have had their names changed to impersonate the investment firm Ark Invest.

The former San Francisco Shock player tweeted to his followers that his YouTube account and two channels had been hacked by someone who has now repurposed them to run a cryptocurrency scam.

He said that the hacker is using the accounts to impersonate Ark Invest, an investment firm that handles cryptocurrency transactions. He pleaded to YouTube to help by doing something to recover his account.

Unfortunately, super is only one of a few content creators who have had their accounts hacked and repurposed for nefarious scams. Recently, Fedmyster had both his Twitch and YouTube accounts hacked by scammers who repurposed them to run a bitcoin scam while pretending to represent the electric car company, Tesla.

The hackers went as far as to make it look like Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO, was promoting the scam. This resulted in Fedmyster's account receiving a ban from the platform.

These hackers seem to target YouTube and Twitch accounts that have many subscribers and followers but have recently been inactive. This was the case with Fed, who was largely inactive after being accused of sexual harassment while he was with OfflineTV.

The same recently happened to the late Twitch streamer Reckful, whose accounts were hacked to run a similar scam. Many were appalled by how disrespectful that case was, especially since the streamer passed away nearly two years prior.

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