'It's really serious': JP Kraemer's YouTube channel hacked

Created: 01/02/2023 11:18 am

By: Sebastian Oppenheimer

Shock for the Dortmund tuner Jean Pierre "JP" Kraemer: Hackers have taken over his YouTube channel JP Performance.

He therefore warned his fans.

It's probably every YouTuber's nightmare: hackers take over the account - and delete the uploaded videos.

And you can just watch for yourself.

That's exactly what happened to the Dortmund tuner Jean Pierre "JP" Kraemer (42).

In an Instagram story, the desperate tuner, who not so long ago made his autism diagnosis public, spoke up.

"We've been hacked, which is really, really insane," Dortmund said in the short clip.

"We don't even know what to do."

'It's really serious': JP Kraemer's YouTube channel hacked

The tuner is one of the most popular German YouTubers, his channel has almost 2.3 million subscribers.

But at least temporarily, his countless car videos had disappeared, instead dubious streams on the subject of cryptocurrencies ran – Elon Musk was also seen.

JP Kraemer (who recently announced he has confidence in being chancellor) tried to prevent worse from happening, warning his viewers: "The stream that's on... Don't watch!

And don't click anywhere either, that's very important."

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Instead of the JP logo, the channel suddenly showed a Tesla logo and was renamed @theteslaworld.

"It's our turn to get that clarified as soon as possible," said JP Kraemer.

"But it's really serious and really sch...".

It is not the first case of this kind: hackers recently hijacked the Tanzverbot YouTube channel (around 1.1 million subscribers), and Julien Bam already had it in spring 2022 (more than eight million followers on three channels ) caught – his videos were deleted.

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JP Kraemer's YouTube channel hacked - things are not going quite smoothly with the tuner at the moment

So now autotuner JP Kraemer has gotten it.

How big the damage is - and whether the tuner has regained control of his channel is not yet known.

In any case, videos are now available again.

Things are not going well at the Dortmund tuner at the moment: he recently drew the ire of many fans who had bought his “Carlender” at full price – because just a few weeks later he sold it at a huge discount.

And not everything went smoothly with his model cars either: many buyers had to wait a long time for their copy, and some cars also arrived broken.

The tuner apologized for this in a video - everything should be better with the next model, he has apparently already found a suitable partner company.