Crypto YouTuber hacked out of $2 million during a livestream

Reveal spoiler

Another day, another heist: Ian Balina, a cryptocurrency YouTuber known for his (sponsored) ICO reviews, was apparently hacked out of $2 million during a livestream session.

Balina was reviewing ICOs on his channel as usual, when a viewer suddenly notified him that “someone” had moved all tokens out of his wallet.

“Ian, did you know that somebody transferred all your tokens from your account,” one user asked in the comments. >“Hope that it’s controlled movement.”

While Balina continued with his review, not taking any notice of the comment, the live feed eventually went down 15 minutes later.

The livestream was purportedly disrupted by a power-cut, and Balina returned to continue his review a few hours later.

This is when he noticed that he had been signed out of his Google Sheets profile:

Balina later took to his own Telegram channel to reveal that he was forced to end the livestream abruptly because he got hacked.

Here’s what he said:

The wallet transactions on Etherscan show that almost all of Balina’s tokens were withdrawn from his account during the livestream. This included more than 20 million Nucleus Vision, 2 million Pareto Network, and 1 million Loom among others.

This isn't the first time to see like these incidents in Crypto world. A lot of people share screenshots, videos and live streams while they aren't aware of their privacy which costs them a lot later.

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Source: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/16/crypto-youtuber-hacked-out-of-2-million-during-a-livestream