Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
Jon Prosser
Hack or exploit on Aug 5, 2020 · Account Compromise
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$4K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#2,354
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
According to a tweet published by Jon Prosser on August 5, its YouTube channel with 262,000 subscribers was hacked, the channel name was changed to "NASA [news]", and a live broadcast about SpaceX CEO Elon Ma Skr gave false news of Bitcoin. In about two hours, the illegal profit was $4,000.
Details
- Date
- Aug 5, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Account Compromise
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Jon Prosser hack, Aug 5, 2020: $4K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht151a601150/ (data as of 2026-10-31).