My YouTube Channel Got Hacked - Full Story & Lessons

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00:00 - Introduction
00:53 - How I Got Hacked
17:23 - What Did the Hack Do?
19:00 - How YouTube Can Improve
19:34 - How Can You Avoid Being Hacked?
21:00 - The Positives From This Experience
22:34 - How You Can Support Those Who Supported Me

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[HumbledTraderOfficial]

I knew how devastated I'd be too if that had happened to me. I love your videos I'm a long time viewer! I'm just glad you got your channel back!

[CanadianTShirt]

What a terrifying experience... I still can't believe that they were able to bypass 2FA and that Google didn't even notify you..

[Dividendology]

So glad to see your channel restored! Thanks for taking the time to make this video and explaining. I can only imagine how scary this would be.

[beaviswealth]

Wow. Glad to have you back and thanks for sharing the story. Been waiting on this one!

[StockUnlockOG]

Wow, this is so amazing to see the support from other you tubers. This also shows how you are a genuinely a great person as well Daniel to get this support. Thanks for sharing ... Cheers!!!

[azo]

Goosebumps for me too, my god, WTF that story bro, proud to be Canadian! Happy to see you again ;)

[cliffcastle]

Thanks for sharing your story and the good folks who came to your aid. Don't forget that we still have phones and video chat as a means to confirm whether people are real or not. You'd be surprised how quickly this sends people running.

[ryanshook]

It's amazing to be a person of integrity and have all these YouTubers with integrity be legendary and help you out. Props to that!

[evadeanu]

Oh Daniel, I’m so sorry you experienced this.
Indeed, our community is massively strong and cooperative. I religiously follow you and all the other ones you mentioned helping you in this video. Thanks for looping us in as I was thinking numerous times of how this has happened and what’s the progress of fixing the hack.
I’m glad this is over now. Stay safe everyone.

[RMC-espndogtv]

I am happy for you.❤ my channel was hacked, too.. YT community is helping me, but it's been a struggle every day. I hope like you, I can get my channel back one day. My Gmail account pw was changed, and even email account verification was changed, too. Even phone number verification was changed, too. I don't know what to do, but I hope I can get through this dis heartening situation.

[markbulmash]

Thanks for sharing your experience. We all needs to learn from each other to prevent this stuff.

[RobertGaut]

Thanks Daniel to make that video how this has happen. A good lesson for all of us to improve our security. Happy that you are back and longg life to your channel and SU

[junhernandez]

I'm glad you solved your problem with the channel🙏🏻. Thank you for share your experience.

[Cloninginvesting]

Glad that you got back your youtube and mail back. You have explained it very well so that others can learn from it.❤

[holyhandgrenadeofantioch]

I learned a few things, thanks for sharing.

[catsarefunny]

We need more Shay's on this planet.

Everybody and their grandmas knows it's virtually impossible to get in contact with a person on Google - isn't there anything we can do to incentivize Google to do better on this part?

[supermanhomepagevideos]

Went through the same nightmare. However, after recovering everything, the hackers have twice now been able to somehow add unknown people as Managers on my account in the Permission settings. Any ideas how they're accomplishing this?

[regicox]

Hey Daniel, I have to say that I was really upset last week when I saw and heard that your YouTube channel was hacked I'm sure I speak for many when I say that your content is invaluable and the work that you put in is just incredible! I am so happy that you are back and that there was no lasting damage. You brought up a point though that I am very concerned about, and that is how to secure my bank account specifically the one that has my investments in it. Should it be spread over several bank accounts and are there any other tools that you could recommend to help make the bank account or bank accounts more secure. Hope you can get into that at some point. Once again I am thrilled that you are back and there was no temporary damage. Be well and we look forward to hearing from you for a very long time to come!

[harryfelg]

You're a great person, too, Daniel - and I'm glad everything worked out!