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Carryminati's YouTube account hacked, hacker asks for bitcoin donations. Twitter has memes

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Carryminati's second YouTube account was hacked recently and the hackers asked for bitcoin donations. Twitter responded with memes. ot long ago, Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent people including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Gates were hacked. All these accounts tweeted out a similar bitcoin message asking people to donate through a particular URL. Now, one of the most famous Indian YouTuber Carryminati aka Ajey Nagar is going through the same ordeal. His YouTube channel Carryislive was hacked during the early hours of Saturday. He took to Twitter to ask for assistance from YouTube. Nagar tweeted, “@YouTubeIndia My channel Carryislive has been hacked, need immediate assistance (sic).” Twitter account of YouTube India was also quick to respond and they left a comment that read, “We're really sorry this happened. Mind following us so we can continue with next steps over DM (sic)?” Similar to the Twitter hack, Carryminati’s Yo...

40,000 cyber-attacks attempted by Chinese hackers on Indian banking, IT sector in five days.

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A top police official in Maharashtra informed on Tuesday that hackers based in China attempted over 40,000 cyber attacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure and banking sector in the last five days. Maharashtra police's cyber wing collected information about the hacking attempts and found out that most of them originated from Chengdu area in China. "According to our information at least 40,300 cyber attacks were attempted in the last four-five days on the resources in Indian cyberspace," PTI qouted Yashasvi Yadav, Special Inspector General of Police of the Maharashtra Police's cyber wing, as saying. Meanwhile, the central government has asked citizens to remain alert against a phishing attack on Sunday that could be used to steal personal and financial information in the garb of official communication on coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the phishing attack campaign by "malicious actor...