Ajey Nagar aka Carryminati is a famous Indian youtuber .He have 2 youtube channels named as 'Carry Minati and Carry is Live'. Recently his streaming channel was hacked by black hat hackers and they demanded cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum on live stream. The stream was related to flood donation.
Three main questions will arise by this attack
1) Why hackers demanded Bitcon and Ethereum cryptocurrencies?
2) Why they streamed for donation purpose?
3) What is Bitcoin and Ethereum Cryptocurrency?
1) Why hackers demanded Bitcon and Ethereum cryptocurrencies?
Cryptocurrencies are non traceable currency. Basically cryptocurrency rae decentralized open source block chain . Most of the hackers demand cryptocurrencies like bitcon and ethereum.
2) Why they streamed for donation purpose?
Hackers did very good social engineering before attack . Social engineering means collecting every data of the victim , it may be actively or passively . Carry is Live channel has a huge audience , where they can easily raise funds . Hackers did live charity stream to raise funds and title was Charity stream | Help Assam and Bihar. For flood donation , which was happened in Assam and Bihar.
3) What is Bitcoin and Ethereum Cryptocurrency?
Basically both are cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are the non traceable currencies , so hackers use demand cryptocurrency like bitcoin or ethereum.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the first largest cryptocurrency platform. Bitcoin is a digital payment currency platform which utilizes cryptocurrency. Basically bitcoin is not backed by any countries central bank as government .
Current price of bitcoin in India ( 1 BITCOIN=8,26,322.47 RS )
Ethereum

Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency platform . It is also non traceable currency. Basically it is decentralized open source block chain. Ether is the cryptocurrency generated by Ethereum miners to secure the block chain.
Current price of ethereum in India ( 1 ETHER = 23,932.54 RS)
DISCLAIMER : Cryptocurrencies value fluctuates everyday . That means cryptocurrency pricing will not remain constant , it changes everyday.
Good information about bitcoins and how and why carry's channel hacked.. Tq u for the information... Keep it up, best of luck for next ur beautiful articles
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