The Inquisitr - Tech

Two weeks ago, an advert for YouTuber PewDiePie appeared in a Wall Street Journal publication thanks to a hacker. Now, it appears that hackers have struck again, this time taking over thousands of Chromecasts, Google Home devices, and smart TVs in order to display a PewDiePie advertisement.

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, a page associated with the Wall Street Journal was hacked and showed the following message.

“Wall Street Journal would like to apologize to PewDiePie. Due to misrepresentation by our journalists, those of whom have now been fired, we are sponsoring PewDiePie to reach maximum subscribers and beat Tseries to 80million. We also need your credit card number, expiry date, and the lucky 3 digits on the back to win the chicken dinner in Fortnite.”

The advert also showed a link to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel and was believed to be posted due,

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