The Cellular Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) esports YouTube channel has been “quickly suspended,” MOONTON revealed in an X (Twitter) submit at present.
The developer mentioned that the suspension occurred as a consequence of “third-party unauthorised livestreams.” It’s unclear what these had been, nevertheless, a person commented on MLBB’s Instagram account that it was hacked to advertise a cryptocurrency.
MLBB Esports’ YouTube account suspension follows after a number of different main esports accounts had been hacked this morning. In response to a report by Dust2 US, the Esports World Cup, ESL CS, BLAST Premier, and BLAST Rainbow Six YouTube accounts had been all compromised to push a pretend memecoin giveaway.
The accounts ran a pretend giveaway stream for a couple of minutes earlier than they had been taken down. The stream featured an previous interview of Gabe Newell speaking in regards to the Steam Deck with a QR code to the memecoin’s pretend giveaway.
All of the accounts can be found with the hacked stream now deleted. Opening the MLBB Esports account, nevertheless, reveals that the web page isn’t out there.
MOONTON has mentioned that it’s speaking with YouTube to repair the state of affairs. The corporate additionally urged gamers to make use of the opposite accounts for MLBB esports to look at broadcasts or for updates concerning the M7 World Championship.
Cryptocurrency hacks are frequent on YouTube which goal massive accounts to push a pretend giveaway. These are often rapidly resolved, which is the doubtless end result for the MLBB Esports YouTube channel.
What’s going on within the ecosystem?
A number of tournaments that are part of the MLBB esports roadmap for H2 2025 are at present ongoing.
The MLBB Skilled Leagues (MPL) throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and MENA are among the many ongoing tournaments.
Not one of the leagues have matches at present. Nevertheless, all of the regional channels for the leagues are energetic.
All these tournaments are extraordinarily essential as they’ll resolve the representatives on the M7 World Championship, set to occur in Jakarta, Indonesia in January 2025.
The M7 has been pushed to 2026 as an alternative of December as a result of SEA Video games. The 2025 SEA Video games will happen in Thailand with MLBB among the many medal occasions.
