Ranveer Allahbadia’s Beer Biceps Channel Hacked

SUMMARY

Ranveer Allahbadia’s YouTube channel Beer Biceps, along with his personal channel, got hacked and the podcaster lost all video content

Allahbadia posted on his Instagram page, that he is “working on next steps,” acting on the situation

A week before, the Supreme Court’s official YouTube channel was hacked and it displayed content promoting cryptocurrency developed by Ripple Labs

In a continued series of cyber attacks, social media content creator Ranveer Allahbadia-owned YouTube channel Beer Biceps, along with his personal channel, lost all video content after being hacked.

The channels were also renamed along with their handle names by the hacking team.

As per reports, Beer Biceps channel was changed to Tesla and its handle to ‘@Elon.trump.tesla_live2024,’ while his personal channel was changed to ‘@Tesla.event.trump_2024.’

Allahbadia took to his Instagram handle, updating about the hack of both his channels, and he also mentioned that he is “working on next steps,” acting on the situation.

The content creator is known to make podcasts by interviewing Bollywood celebrities, business leaders, social media influencers for his channel.

Following the incident, YouTube has removed both of Allahbadia’s channels from the platform, as per reports.

This update comes a week after the Supreme Court’s official YouTube channel was hacked. The account showed videos promoting a cryptocurrency developed by US-based company Ripple Labs.

The issue of cyber attacks and data breach has become a common trap and netizens continue to lose their sensitive information and wealth.

It is pertinent to note that cyberattacks on Indian websites surged 261% year-on-year (YoY) in the first quarter (Q1) of calendar year 2024 (CY24), as per a report by security SaaS firm Indusface.

Earlier this month, personal data of millions of customers of listed general insurance major Star Health & Allied Insurance was allegedly up for sale on instant messaging app Telegram, which was seen to be one of the biggest data breaches in Indian history.

A few weeks ago, the government revealed its aims to create a central registry of suspects to crackdown on the rising instances of cyber crimes in the country.

Union home minister Amit Shah inaugurated the registry during the annual foundation day programme of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C). He also launched other initiatives like creation of cyber commandos, and the Samanvay platform (Joint Cyber Crime Investigation Facility System) to tackle cyber crimes.