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Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked

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The Linus Tech Tips, TechLinked, and TechQuickie Youtube channels have been restored.

A video explaining what happened is now up:

 

 

I just received a notification on YouTube for a Tesla stream. I knew that meant that one of the channel I was following got hacked. When I checked the channel, it seemed to be the LTT main channel.

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Yeah, i just got a notification for a tesla stream. I didn't remember subscribing to Tesla, so I wanted to unsubscribe, only to see the LTT was taken over by a scammer

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I've seen this happen to a lot of YouTube channels lately. Lotta crypto scammers have been hacking YouTube channels to push scams. Often by using Elon Musk's mug to do it, as seen here.

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Don't know if this is the right place to put this, I literally just made the account today to notify you guys ASAP.

 

Got a YouTube notification telling a Tesla stream is happening although I never subscribed to it. Then I noticed the thumbnail from the previous stream (building a computer for the 500 Hz monitor).

 

Where Tesla is in my alphabetical-order subs list is supposed to be LTT

 

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I didn’t know the best place to put this, but just got a notification for one of those BS Tesla crypto streams, I clicked on it, and it directed me to the LTT channel, but a LOT of the info has been changed to seem legitimate, attached the best screen shot I could grab to represent what I meant. 
 

Hopefully someone is having a really early morning this morning at LTT… 

 

Good thing I have floatplane 😎

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Hopefully YouTube support can fix this, and put the deleted content back up without losing the metrics.

 

At least we'll always have FloatPlane.

 

@Alpha XVIVLGR Foods? I see you too are a person of culture. 🙂 

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