YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia fell victim to a major cyber attack targeting his YouTube channels. Hackers seized control of his main channel, “Beer Biceps,” altering its name to “Tesla” and modifying the handle to “@Elon.trump.tesla_live2024.” The breach also affected his Allahbadia’s personal channel as well, which was rebranded as “@Tesla.event.trump_2024.” After the incident, YouTube removed the channels from its platform. Users are now seeing a message stating, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
Ranveer Allahbadia responds
YouTuber responded to the news by sharing Instagram Stories. In one such story, he said “Celebrating my two main channels being hacked with my favourite food. Vegan burgers. Death of BeerBiceps met with death of diet.”
In another story, he also shared a selfie with an eye mask, asking, “he wrote “Is this the end of my YouTube career? Was nice knowing you all!”.
….this is not a PR stunt: Vijay Sheth
Vijay Sheth, co-founder – Monk Entertainments owned by Ranveer Allahbadia has refuted the claims being made by people who are calling it a PR stunt. In a post on X, Sheth wrote “Unfortunately, some people believe the channel hack is a PR stunt because we are not panicking. To put it on record, this is not a PR stunt. Both channels were hacked last night around 1130PM IST. We are calm because we have full faith in the YouTube team to help us retrieve the channels as they were before the hack.”
In another post, he said “Have full faith in YouTube to help us retrieve the hacked channels. Most hands-on team I’ve worked with.” He also shared an image showing the YouTube channel renamed to Tesla. “Guess we are now selling Tesla cars and endorsing Trump for the time being,” he wrote in the post.