The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle, TheHackerGiraffe, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a Reddit AMA that reads, 'I hacked 50,000 printers worldwide out of potential 800,000 for PewDiePie and security awareness.'
The hacker reveals that he used Shodan, a repository for internet connected devices where he found 80,000 connected printers and decided to attack 50,000 of them to raise awareness about printer security, The Verge reported. Of the attacked printers, about 15000 printers were in India.Here is how the entire #pewdiepie printer hack went down:
— TheHackerGiraffe (@HackerGiraffe) December 1, 2018
1. I was bored after playing Destiny 2 for a continous 4 hours, and decided I wanted to hack something. So I thought of any vulnerable protocols I could find on shodan
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Kjellberg has maintained his status as the top channel on YouTube for years now, but recently, his claim to the throne has been increasingly threatened by T-Series, a channel owned by an Indian music production company. T-Series' growth rate in 2018 has been explosive: it currently has over 72 million subscribers, placing it behind Kjellberg by around 150,000 fans. Judging by T-Series' subscriber trajectory, many onlookers estimate that the channel will eventually outgrow PewDiePie.@pewdiepie I work in IT around Brighton and our Printers are being hacked....is this your propaganda? pic.twitter.com/xIRCGEQoNB
— Georgia Barton (@georgia_bizzle) November 29, 2018
Kjellberg's recent uploads often feature segments where he asks fans to convince people to subscribe to him. As a result, PewDiePie fans have done everything from placing posters to playing Kjellberg's diss track against T-Series at the club. One YouTuber launched a citywide advertising campaign where they bought every single billboard, radio spot, and local TV spot available in support of PewDiePie's channel. Together, fans have ensured that Kjellberg remains narrowly ahead of T-Series for longer than anyone expected.
