{"id":30125,"date":"2025-10-16T06:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=30125"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:18:32","slug":"hackers-hacked-dota-2-and-pgls-official-youtube-channels-to-promote-a-meme-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/dota-2\/hackers-hacked-dota-2-and-pgls-official-youtube-channels-to-promote-a-meme-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 and PGL YouTube Channels Hacked to Promote a Meme Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is definitely something no one expected to see, but it happened \u2014 <strong>Dota 2 and PGL\u2019s official YouTube channels were hacked<\/strong> and used to promote a <strong>Solana-based meme coin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack sparked chaos across the Dota 2 community as fans discovered a fake \u201cofficial\u201d livestream that linked to a suspicious crypto project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hackers Promoting a Solana-based Meme Coin on Dota 2 and PGL\u2019s Official Channels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like Valve\u2019s official Dota 2 YouTube channel was hacked by crypto scammers<br><br>lmao <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p82ReIPrWW\">pic.twitter.com\/p82ReIPrWW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SadlyItsBradley\/status\/1978582106751029518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the investigation does not reveal that people lost personal data, it became clear that <strong>hackers managed to steal Dota 2 and PGL\u2019s official YouTube channels.<\/strong> They used it to open a live stream called \u201c<strong>Dota 2 Launch Official Meme Coin &#8211; Hurry Up\u201d<\/strong>, and had a link to a PumpFun taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After diving deep, it became clear that the <strong>coin\u2019s market cap was around $5000, and one wallet had more than 98% of all coins in supply<\/strong>. Unsurprisingly, people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DotA2\/comments\/1o7oku7\/psa_dota2_youtube_hacked_do_not_buy_the_shitcoin\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DotA2\/comments\/1o7oku7\/psa_dota2_youtube_hacked_do_not_buy_the_shitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quickly turned to Reddit<\/a> to inform others about the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s disturbing here is that the<strong> breach spread beyond Dota 2\u2019s official channel<\/strong> because users also reported that PGL\u2019s channel suffered the same fate. The channel was hacked, and a<strong> fake video of Michael Saylor was posted<\/strong>, in which he explained various things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Incident Happened Before<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While many<strong> Dota 2 fans are probably shocked by what happened,<\/strong> the truth is that this approach is not new. This breach follows a similar pattern because many other <strong>high-profile YouTube channels suffered the same fate<\/strong>. Hackers take control of people\u2019s channels, rebrand them, and start promoting a worthless meme coin to extract as much money from people as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most shocking case is from last year, when <strong>India\u2019s Supreme Court YouTube channel was hacked<\/strong>. The individuals responsible for this decision appear to have <strong>promoted an XRP scam<\/strong>, and it seems they employed a similar tactic here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be very interesting to <strong>see how Valve responds<\/strong> and the actions it takes to ensure this does not happen again. It is very sad that <strong>many people got scammed<\/strong> but we hope that this case will increase users\u2019 awareness and save them from losing money in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is definitely something no one expected to see, but it happened \u2014 Dota 2 and PGL\u2019s official YouTube channels were hacked and used to promote a Solana-based meme coin. The attack sparked chaos across the Dota 2 community as fans discovered a fake \u201cofficial\u201d livestream that linked to a suspicious crypto project. Hackers Promoting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":30126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[260,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-30125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dota-2","8":"tag-dota-2","9":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30132,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30125\/revisions\/30132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}