The official Google YouTube channel for the Indian market called Google India YouTube Channel is deleted and now deactivated. As a result, plenty of the blogs and news posts owned by the brand have broken embeds, because the source of the information has been removed, an unexpected action.
Was the Youtube Channel of Google India Hacked?
As crypto scams grow, criminals tend to target popular YouTube channels to reach a fresh audience. It seems that the same attempt was made on the Google India YouTube Channel. Similar attacks on independent creators — such as Ranveer Allahbadia — who had their hacked channels used to advertise cryptocurrency schemes to their unsuspecting followers have happened in the past.
Not even a technology titan like Google escaped this time. It has been confirmed by recent reports that the official Youtube channel of Google India was hacked and a cryptocurrency promotion video was streamed via the platform. YouTube later took down the channel for violating community guidelines, rendering it dormant.
Impact of the Channel Removal
The deletion of the Google India YT Channel has affected all the contents that this channel shared over the years. The channel is now broken and all of the blogs and news posts pointing to it with embedded videos are broken. Speaks to the fact that online security threats impact all of us — individual creator or massive tech company.
Google has not released any statement in this regard nor have they mentioned anything about the steps they will take, but their incident has a good message for every User and brand that they should take the cybersecurity seriously. The incident related to Google India YouTube Channel teaches us that a good security practices done to prevent such attack will help in avoiding such attacks.
FAQ
An update: The Google India YouTube Channel was taken down for breach of YouTube’s community guidelines after a hacked video was posted promoting cryptocurrency.
Yeah, so it was actually hacked therefore probably a crypto scam video streamed then removed.
So yes, a lot of blogs and news posts embedding videos from the Google India YouTube Channel now have broken links.
Meanwhile, Google hasn’t made any official comments about the hack or future defenses.
Google India YouTube Channel removal is a reminder that no one is safe on internet completely and one should always have the protective shield to avoid cyber attack.
