How has Hacking impacted my YouTube Channel?

Do you know how carelessness can impact you and your whole career? Last year, in 2024, on the 14th of June, my laptop got hacked, and the impact is still here. I have already shared a video (in Odia) with full details and how my Facebook pages got hacked and this impacted me and my pages.

Today, I am sharing another story about one of my YouTube channels. In May 2020, I started a YouTube channel and shared some old Odia songs (copyrighted songs). Initially, I created this channel to upload some old Odia songs I wanted to listen to outside my workplace. The first song was loved by lots of people, and after uploading a few songs, I uploaded a jukebox with those uploaded songs; surprisingly, that jukebox got lots of views.

Due to copyright issues, I couldn't monetize those songs, and of course not that channel. But I love to create and share those songs. But, due to the hack, the hackers hijacked that channel along with my personal and other channels. After the help from the YouTube team, I recovered my Gmail account and the hacked channels, but YouTube had removed that channel because of copyrighted songs.

Check out my blog about the recovery process of hacked YouTube channels.

Two days back, YouTube suspended my personal YouTube channel for violating the community guidelines. So, I had appealed against this decision. I could say it was my good time; YouTube had revoked the suspension from my channel along with that removed channel, and I got it back.

I have shared screenshots of the analytics for the last 365 days. You can see the impact, and during those days, no videos were uploaded. So, this was an impact on one of my YouTube channels.