South Korean YouTuber Kwak Tube suffered collateral damage in the fallout from a cryptocurrency crash after a Hong Kong-based project founder replaced his social media profile photo with an image of the creator.

The confusion followed a hack targeting Humanity Protocol, a cryptocurrency project whose token recently lost more than 80 percent of its value, leaving investors facing heavy losses.

As criticism mounted online, Humanity Protocol founder Terrence Kwok changed his profile picture to a photo of Kwak Tube, whose real name is Kwak Jun-bin. The switch led some users to mistakenly associate the Korean creator with the controversy. Although…