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Hackers Keep Robbing Cryptocurrency YouTubers (theverge.com)
Hackers are going after YouTubers who make videos about cryptocurrencies. Adrianne Jeffries, reporting for The Verge: Cryptocurrency vlogging has exploded on YouTube over the last two years. In the last 90 days, there were 122,000 videos on cryptocurrency or Bitcoin uploaded to YouTube, garnering 328 million views, according to video analytics platform Tubular Labs. As it turns out, YouTubers are juicy targets for hackers because they share so much information about themselves. They often share their screens as they make trades, which can reveal what apps, usernames, and cryptocurrency addresses they use. They may even tell their followers what systems they use to secure their holdings, which can end up being a blueprint for attackers.
"You have to be very careful about that stuff as a YouTuber," says Peter Saddington, the host of Decentralized TV on YouTube who infamously bought a Lamborghini with his Bitcoin earnings. "In my early days of YouTube, I used to show my trades. I learned that was not a good idea." Saddington was hacked in late 2017.
"You have to be very careful about that stuff as a YouTuber," says Peter Saddington, the host of Decentralized TV on YouTube who infamously bought a Lamborghini with his Bitcoin earnings. "In my early days of YouTube, I used to show my trades. I learned that was not a good idea." Saddington was hacked in late 2017.
It really is when you buy a Lamborghini with bitcoin revenue probably without declaring it and paying taxes on it, expect the IRS hackers to come a knocking. Perhaps the IRS should be watching more Youtube and checking how many of those YouTube crypto currency experts have declared crypto coin profits in the last 7 bunch of years. I'll bet the majority have not, so not the smartest idea to publicly advertise revenues and every provide video of yourself to make identification so much easier for IRS agents. Especially now, when it looks like the great crypto exchange seize and mine servers fishing expedition for criminal prosecution seems to be in the works. Those people will hack you hard, not to worry, they wont leave you out on the streets, they will provide you with free room and board, even throw in food and clothing, the 'Grey Bar Hotel' I believe it is called. Have not declared you income for years, now would be the time to stop advertising it.
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