BeerBiceps Hacked: Tanmay Bhat to CarryMinati, YouTubers Who Were Victims Of Tesla Crypto Scam
BeerBiceps Hacked: Famous YouTuber Ranveer Allahabadia also known as BeerBiceps' YouTube channels got hacked for a Bitcoin scam on Wednesday. The hacking led to the deleting of all of his interviews and podcasts with prominent personalities on the channels. The hackers took over his personal channel and ‘BeerBicpes’ channel to name them "Tesla" with "@Elon.trump.tesla_live2024 and @Tesla.event.trump_2024 respectively as their handle names.
The content on the channels was replaced by videos of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and their likes.
The hack that has come to the front as a cryptocurrency scam used the generative AI avatar of Tesla’s CEO to trick viewers into investing in cryptocurrency with false promises of doubling their return in Bitcoin or Ethereum. For the universe ‘Bitcoin doubling’ has become a common cyber attack by manipulating the YouTube of famous people.
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Similar has also happened with other Indian YouTubers who had to lose years of their work by a sudden hack.
Tanmay Bhat
Back in June 2023, Comedian Tanmay Bhat reported something similar. On 5 June he made an X (then Twitter) post saying that his YouTube channel and Gmail had been hacked by “Tesla Corp”, the name hackers used for his account. Boasting 4.4 million subscribers at that time, all the videos of the channel were deleted with a live stream taking place featuring Elon Musk headlined “Tesla Unveils the All-New Model S Plaid 2024 Today! Live Coverage with Elon Musk”.
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Aishwarya Mohanraj
Prior to Bhat, Comedian Aishwarya Mohanraj was a victim of the hack as her channel with then 70,000 subscribers was hacked cutting her access to it and her videos. The hacked account featured 2 lives of Tesla’s events with her Gmail also getting manipulated.
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Barkha Dutt
Prominent journalist Barkha Dutt’s channel ‘Mojo Story’ was also hacked in June 2023 along with her Gmail as she revealed the same through a tweet. Following a similar pattern, the hackers used the popularity of Elon Musk to steam his videos to scam people with cryptocurrency.
CarryMinati
In July 2020, CarryMinati aka Ajey Nagar’s channel Carryislive‘’ was hacked to ask for bitcoin donations. The YouTuber known for his roast videos tweeted about the same asking for assistance from YouTube. The hackers yet again streamed video to scam people into Bitcoin donations by using Nagar’s old Bihar Charity stream and changing the description to a Bitcoin address.
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