Valkyrae reveals his YouTube account was hacked and jokingly asks Elon Musk to ‘cease hacking’

Full-time YouTube streamer Rachell Hofstetter “Valkyrae” took to her Twitter account to announce that she was hacked on the time of publication. So as to add a comedic twist to the scenario, she revealed that her channel’s identify had been modified to “Tesla”. The streamer jokingly tagged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to ask if he was behind the hack.

For these questioning, Valkyrae has now regained entry to her channel. Though she has but to replace her show photograph, she revealed in her final stream that the hack might have been brought on by a bot. She additional revealed that her channel was disoriented and manipulated till she regained entry.

“I am fairly certain it is a bot” – Valkyrae offers her opinion after hack alert

Earlier immediately, Valkyrae revealed that her YouTube channel had been hacked. She revealed that her channel’s identify had been modified to “Tesla”, coupled with a dwell broadcast from the automobile. She then resumed her feed, after recovering her account, and mentioned:

“Sorry a lot problem. Sure additionally it is in subscriber mode however I’ve it on… usually I’ve it as a in the future submode however I’ve it off proper now as a result of I do know lots of people unfollowed considering it was a distinct account that wasn’t mine.”

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Requested about her profile image, she replied:

“I am unable to discover the information. I do know it is an Instagram photograph however I simply haven’t got time to repair it…that is all, all the things modified. They put all my shorts on in non-public.”

Persevering with, Valkyrae mentioned:

“I am fairly certain it is a bot doing this and it is a YouTube concern, which YouTube wants to repair. But it surely’s additionally occurred to Peter (Park), the place VODs aren’t being deleted, they simply deleted all the things. It is like an computerized factor. I believe it occurs generally to random channels the place they modify the username, change the profile image, put all of the shorts, all of the VODs on unlisted they usually simply go dwell to advertise a cryptocurrency…”

Followers react to the sudden hack

Seeing Rachell, one of the outstanding figures within the streaming trade, getting hacked has drawn lots of fan feedback. As of this writing, her tweet has garnered over 887 feedback.

Listed here are a few of the most notable:

As beforehand reported, Valkyrae has now recovered her account after the hacking frenzy. Fortunately for the streamer, none of her VODs have been completely deleted or faraway from her channel.