Huge security vulnerability on youtube!

[thadeus]

 

There is a bot channel Logan (current name), do not engage with this youtube channel

 

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A hacker on YouTube has stolen thousands of people's channels, and has access to the database. They can see your videos before they're posted & subscribing to them can lose you your channel.

Evanz111

Raleted Videos from...

 

Orginal video (this channels has been compromised). - Evanz111 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07aliklZ1Ao

Upper Echelon Gamers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGhZ8gWqUg&t=0s

TheQuartering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q853HSIl8u0&t=709s

 

 

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, thadeus said:

A hacker on YouTube has stolen thousands of people's channels, and has access to the database. They can see your videos before they're posted & subscribing to them can lose you your channel.

I call bullshit on this. They're just fooling people to do something stupid, they don't have access to Youtube's internal databases or anything like that.

[TetraSky]

This makes no sense to me and would be impossible unless you willingly give them your info.

When you subscribe to someone, they don't get your information, at all.

[TomvanWijnen]

2 minutes ago, Arika S said:

have any of these claims been verified by Google/Youtube?

 

"oh, i heard about this channel from a friend of a friend who has a brother that's married to someone that had a cousin who had their channel stolen just by subscribing to it"

I don't know, but I have seen these comments from him (logan) out in the wild.

[andy_3_913]

Don't know how accurate this is

 

 

[TetraSky]

I'm almost tempted to use a spare account with a 25 random digit password and see if that will get "stolen".

Also, apparently, it's "Vakzy" now.

 

Honestly, this sound more like some kind of creepy pasta than something real. Just the fact that this "Evanz" guy somehow got his account "hacked" after publishing the video... Makes me think it's a hoax.

[TetraSky]

4 minutes ago, Arika S said:

kind of like an ARG but much more boring.

Pretty much
Just this alone

 

Could easily be your typical way a "hacker" would try to get your password... Sending your a fake message and getting you to enter your real password. Once they get it, a script automatically change it for real and that's that. It's easy enough to get a phone number, email or some other way of contacting these days by doing a reverse search for their social media presence. People share too much online, they don't realize this shit could bite them in the ass.

[TetraSky]

2 minutes ago, Arika S said:

or this william evans is the "logan" guy trying to build it up to become viral, or is a friend of the guy.

Maybe. Getting notoriety, building up his subscriber base. They left 3 years ago and only came back last month. But their videos are not that "popular", many are barely reaching to 1k views, up to 4k. As such, a grand plot is devised and... We're here today discussing this crap.

[Tristerin]

When someone says they hacked your FB because you left the lock screen off on your phone and walked away

[wANKER]

Why do people insist on making assumptions when they have no idea what they're talking about? 

 

"and has access to the database." 

[WereCatf]

1 hour ago, thadeus said:

subscribing to them can lose you your channel

This is the bit that struck me the most: it's rather clearly meant to get curious people to subscribe to the channel, which would definitely give credence to the idea that this is just an attempt at getting lots of attention for the channel quickly and nothing more.

[NumLock21]

I was watching some youtube videos yesterday and I saw those comments, so how does that comment hack a YT channel?

[Nine Tailed Fox]

Bullshit asshole no one likes the tuna here.

[Shreyas1]

8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I was watching some youtube videos yesterday and I saw those comments, so how does that comment hack a YT channel?

slightly off topic, but seeing how this has blown up I can see many people posting these kinds of comments either for attention for their channel or as a joke

[Sauron]

On 5/16/2020 at 4:49 PM, WereCatf said:

I call bullshit on this. They're just fooling people to do something stupid, they don't have access to Youtube's internal databases or anything like that.

Also if they had access to YT's database what would be the point of waiting for people to accept your friend invite?

On 5/16/2020 at 8:57 PM, NumLock21 said:

I was watching some youtube videos yesterday and I saw those comments, so how does that comment hack a YT channel?

 

15 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

slightly off topic, but seeing how this has blown up I can see many people posting these kinds of comments either for attention for their channel or as a joke

It's like the creepypasta version of Bob's army from 2013

[Marbo]

Anyone get the feeling Evanz and Logan are the same person? 

 

I reckon Evenz is trying to drum up business and revenue.