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“Thehackergiraffe” Says He’s Retired From Hacking Smart Tvs To Promote Pewdiepie

TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and smart TVs to promote the PewDiePie YouTube channel, has announced his retirement.

In a Pastebin post, TheHackerGiraffe explained that he was “afraid of being caught and prosecuted.”

The announcement comes days after ChromeCast owners started asking on the internet why their TVs were suddenly showing a video promoting the channel of YouTube superstar PewDiePie.