Hänno aka HandofBlood has recently lost his YouTube channel to hackers.
The Berlin HandOfBlood is one of the largest and most popular YouTubers in Europey, and many GameStar readers are also among its subscribers. Therefore, many of you may have been maximally confused, as the weekend may be a shady crypto live stream with Elon Musk appeared in your subscription feed.
The reason for that: Hackers took over Hänno’s channel to use it for a lousy scam.
HandOfBlood’s channel plunges into chaos after being hacked
What happened? On Saturday afternoon, the first fans reported that the HandofBlood YouTube channel had disappeared. Instead of the influencer’s usual content, there was only a live stream on the channel in which the controversial Tesla boss Elon Musk apparently talks about Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.
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This type of hack has become more and more common in recent weeks, including the tuning expert JP Performance.
By taking over major channels and playing weird live streams, the hackers want lure unknowing viewers to fraudulent websites. This is then followed by offers à la Send Elon Musk a bitcoin, he will send you two back
advertised. Of course, if someone falls for this trick, the money is gone forever.
What’s next?
Unfortunately, this type of hacker attack is no longer uncommon. At least we can tell you that affected channels have always been able to be reset to their original state.
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In the case of Hänno’s channel, too, YouTube Support is currently busy clearing up the mess. At the moment, however, the channel has completely disappeared from the video platform, you will only see an error message there on Monday afternoon. His second channel, HandofUncut, which features longer Let’s Plays, is unaffected.
Of course, we’re keeping our fingers crossed for HandofBlood that everything will be back to normal as soon as possible – after all, he’s been a friend of GameStar for years.
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Among other things, the YouTuber, whose real name is Maximilian Knabe, has delivered a terrific dubbing role as Adolf Hitler in our editorial episode on Wolfenstein 2. You can listen to his voice from minute 3:20. Hänno has also been in front of the camera several times for joint formats and collaborations with Maurice, who himself went under the full-time streamer in 2022.
