Hackers hijack popular YouTuber Scott the Woz's Twitter account

Entertainment Published: 29/Dec/2020 18:35 by Michael Gwilliam YouTube/Scott The Woz Popular gaming YouTuber Scott ‘Scott The Woz’ Wozniak had his Twitter account taken over by hackers on December 29. Scott The Woz is one of the most popular gaming channels on YouTube, boasting over 1.25 million subscribers on the platform while his Twitter has just under 300,000. On December 29, the YouTuber mysteriously had all of his previous tweets deleted and replaced with either nonsensical posts or retweets of pro-hacking websites. “Like this and Scott gets his sh*t back within the hour,” one of the hackers said in a post advertising a website by an individual named YARIS. TwitterHackers started promoting their website. It’s unclear if YARIS is the same person who gained access to Scott’s account, but it had been created as early as April 2009.  Read More: C9 Perkz hit by massive earthquake in Croatia while on Twitch With the account under the hackers’ control, the antics continued with “Scott” posting racist and homophobic slurs. Scott’s Twitter handle was also changed to advertise the hacking website. TwitterScott’s name and handle were both changed. Fans of Wozniak, however, decided to fight back and issue mass reports to Twitter, telling…
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