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@LinusTech Twitter Account Hacked

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On June 28, 2016 the Linus Media Group domain registrar account was compromised.

 

The exact methodology of the "hack" won't be disclosed for obvious reasons, but I can assure you that despite any claims to the contrary, the appropriate safeguards were in place on our side, and as I type this Yvonne is having a very heated phone discussion with the 3rd party responsible for the breach.

 

Anyway, the thing most of you are probably wondering about right now is what this means for your forum account or personal information, and the answer is very simple:

 

NOTHING.

 

The "hacker" simply changed the DNS settings in the dashboard and did not at any time have access to the linustechtips.com server. Any claims of a database dump are categorically false.

 

The compromised accounts - including Twitter - have been restored.

 

I hope this clears things up.

 

Linus

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Linus Media Group website redirects to poodlecorp o.O

 

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1 minute ago, DEcobra11 said:

So what?
Another bunch of kiddos wanting to grow their e-peen, like... how desperate you've to be to add "big hackers"

Just keep going, not the first time it happens.
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Remember Lizard squad? They were involved.

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

"Please don't mistake us for Equifax. Those fuckers are evil"

 

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28 minutes ago, 4ndrew said:

Absolute SAVAGE

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I almost want to make this my signature... lmao

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1 minute ago, mvilcis said:

it's because their 2fa is based on the person's phone number

 

basically, if the hacker gets Linus':

 

* password,

* phone number,

* and has a chance to infiltrate the phone's connection;

 

then, you're in!

 

... but i'm pretty sure linus didn't even have 2fa.

I know he has on youtube and other stuff

 

but I edited my post.

 

but still, this happens a LOT more with twitter accounts, than I have seen on any other of the big social media.

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It matters that you don't just give up.”

-Stephen Hawking

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I'm scared...

 

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THIS LOVELY FORUM??????

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My rig:

Spoiler

Celeronator (new main rig)

CPU: Intel Celeron (duh) N2840 2.16GHz Dual Core

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz

HDD: Seagate 500GB

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 Series

Spoiler

Frankenhertz (ex main rig)

CPU: Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz Dual Core

RAM: 1GB DDR3-800

HDD: HGST 320GB

GPU: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

 

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1 minute ago, DEcobra11 said:

How is that relevant?

Just look at their twitter page (poodlecorps that is).

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

"Please don't mistake us for Equifax. Those fuckers are evil"

 

This PSA brought to you by Equifacks.
PMSL

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So, they got LinusMediaGroup.com... can they get this forum too?

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...why are you still reading this?

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1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

So, they got LinusMediaGroup.com... can they get this forum too?

That's exactly my concern...

 

Is it a good time to celebrate my 1700th post?

Athlon X2 for only 27.31$   Best part lists at different price points   Windows 1.01 running natively on an Eee PC

My rig:

Spoiler

Celeronator (new main rig)

CPU: Intel Celeron (duh) N2840 2.16GHz Dual Core

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz

HDD: Seagate 500GB

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 Series

Spoiler

Frankenhertz (ex main rig)

CPU: Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz Dual Core

RAM: 1GB DDR3-800

HDD: HGST 320GB

GPU: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

 

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37 minutes ago, MrSuperBailey said:

I'm not sure if they got his youtube... yet

Not yet...

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2 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

That's exactly my concern...

 

Is it a good time to celebrate my 1700th post?

no

 

you made your 1700th post while a terrorist attack and Linus was (and still is!) getting hacked

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I went to Linus Tech and reported his account as hacked.

Twitter should shut their account down soon enough.

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1 minute ago, mrnapolean1 said:

I went to Linus Tech and reported his account as hacked.

Twitter should shit their account down soon enough.

Quoting for auto correct truth

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3 minutes ago, Zolthan said:

Not yet...

His facebook page is also good for now.

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1 minute ago, Z-Gaming said:

Now the whole @LinusTech Team should try and hack them back. "An eye for an eye" was it? 
 

IDK, we call that "a tooth for tooth" here in Serbia

Athlon X2 for only 27.31$   Best part lists at different price points   Windows 1.01 running natively on an Eee PC

My rig:

Spoiler

Celeronator (new main rig)

CPU: Intel Celeron (duh) N2840 2.16GHz Dual Core

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz

HDD: Seagate 500GB

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 Series

Spoiler

Frankenhertz (ex main rig)

CPU: Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz Dual Core

RAM: 1GB DDR3-800

HDD: HGST 320GB

GPU: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

 

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7 minutes ago, Z-Gaming said:

Now the whole @LinusTech Team should try and hack them back. "An eye for an eye" was it? 

That sounds stupid, honestly.

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As if anything about Twitter is actually secure anyway.

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7 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

IDK, we call that "a tooth for tooth" here in Serbia

In Dutch we say "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" xD 

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Since linusmediagroup.com was taken over, I'm guessing they used social engineering to get control of the domain and from there get access to company email addresses and then use those to take over twitter through password reset etc.

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