@LinusTech Twitter Account Hacked

[GregHousePpTh]

I was wondering is really Linus at fault?

Looks like Twitter is to blame (? maybe?) or the Phone Serv. Prov.
And if you were Linus how would you prevented this from happening.\

[lightningterror]

He actually got his twitter back right about now.

[burnttoastnice]

His twitter is coming back It's been renamed back to  LTT

[thedarkdad3]

Yeah it's back for now.

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, lightningterror said:

He actually got his twitter back right about now.

Thought the same. Color is changed from default to orange, the tweets from the guy are gone, but the profile picture is not back yet

EDIT: description is back though

[lightningterror]

2 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Thought the same. Color is changed from default to orange, the tweets from the guy are gone, but the profile picture is not back yet

EDIT: description is back though

Give it some time.

[thedarkdad3]

Ahh man He's got to feel so salty and embarrassed.

[nzgamer41]

Just saying, I love the new Twitter logo. Very simplistic.

[Arty]

2 minutes ago, nzgamer41 said:

Just saying, I love the new Twitter logo. Very simplistic.

prolly couldn't find the old pic file in time

[lightningterror]

2 minutes ago, nzgamer41 said:

Just saying, I love the new Twitter logo. Very simplistic.

The end and beginning of an era.

[Arty]

[LinusTech]

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

[burnttoastnice]

2 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

<snip>

what this means for your forum account or personal information, and the answer is very simple:

 

NOTHING.

<snip>

 

Business as usual guys, the man himself is back

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

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

Thank you very much for the clear up on the whole data breach part.

Good luck with getting everything set up back!

[rm -rf]

2 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

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. And claims of a database dump are categorically false.

 

The compromised accounts - including Twitter - have been restored.

 

I hope this clears things up.

 

Linus

Are you aware of how they got into the Twitter account?

I see you have denied techtips888, though why would poodlecorp change it to that?

[4ndrew]

5 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

The compromised accounts - including Twitter - have been restored.

Can we expect a return of the legendary profile pic anytime soon?

[burnttoastnice]

1 minute ago, rm -rf said:

Are you aware of how they got into the Twitter account?

I see you have denied techtips888, though why would poodlecorp change it to that?

Probably an attempt to give him bad publicity, seeing as he's done videos on choosing secure passwords etc.

 

Your username though copy and paste that into a nice sudo terminal on ubuntu and watch the wrath unleash...

[Z609]

Thank you for clearing that up.

[LinusTech]

24 minutes ago, rm -rf said:

Are you aware of how they got into the Twitter account?

I see you have denied techtips888, though why would poodlecorp change it to that?

Yes we know exactly what happened.

 

22 minutes ago, 4ndrew said:

Can we expect a return of the legendary profile pic anytime soon?

No, sorry. I'd been meaning to update it for quite some time, so this was a perfect opportunity to do so.

[MrCross]

Has anymore safeguards been put in place to prevent this from happening again?

[rm -rf]

1 minute ago, burnttoastnice said:

Probably an attempt to give him bad publicity, seeing as he's done videos on choosing secure passwords etc.

 

Your username though copy and paste that into a nice sudo terminal on ubuntu and watch the wrath unleash...

They have also made a public commend earlier saying that they were going to hack a YouTube channel with over 5 million subscribers and disable the account.

 

rm -rf isn't usable in current versions of Ubuntu, even if you are in a sudo terminal

[thedarkdad3]

7 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

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

 

 

You've been hacked multiple times buddy. My advice Hire a new firm and take some courses on real world security.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Manage My Cables]

The lvl 99 meme king himself Linus can't be hacked his dankness keep the shady internet beings at bay.

[Digivoxel]

Although our forum accounts have not been compromised, I would still like to remind everyone that changing your password frequently and two-factor authentification is important. Also using different passwords is helpful to reduce multiple accounts being targeted.

[Yog]

1 minute ago, MrCross said:

Has anymore safeguards been put in place to prevent this from happening again?

I imagine that's what Yvonne's heated discussion with said "3rd party" is/will be about.