A popular YouTuber was robbed of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency on Monday as hundreds of people watched it live. Crypto trader Ian Balina was two hours into a livestream about the latest crypto coin offerings when a user told him that hackers stole $2 million from his account. “Ian, did you know that somebody transferred all your tokens from your account,” one user asked in the comments. “Hope that it’s controlled movement.” The popular streamer brushed it off and noted that lots of people were commenting and it was hard to keep up; anyone who reads the comment section of a livestream will find them a bit random…
Really hard to show a stock photo of cryptocurrency being stolen but this comes close (via Shutterstock).