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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:

 

 

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Thanks for the concern everyone. We are still in recovery mode over here and working with YouTube to get everything restored. Will hopefully have a video (or at least an update on WAN Show) to share with you all ASAP, but we want to make sure we get the details right since smaller channels may rely on our experience to help harden their own security.

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7 minutes ago, rustable said:

love how there website is trash and warns you about phishing if you go on it

They got reported to DNS providers so fast that they already have a warning live

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Just now, Piipperi said:

It was likely only uploaded because they needed some support with a server software, and I'm guessing the video was then sent to a tech support person as it was quite a long video which probably won't fit in an email. 

they would have just deleted it because they arent dumb

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1 minute ago, LolaCola said:

Its loosing subs fast down to 4.2M

ltt hacked.png

That's the TQ channel, it always had around that number of subs.

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1 minute ago, abu_shawarib said:

Never thought I'd be writing in the forums, but here we go. Lmao

YouTube will probably reverse everything like they did with the coinbase incident 

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Just now, PhoenixIO said:

Linus always said the forum was a backup in case youtube disappeared...

Server infrastructure laughs at the notion of future planning.

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1 minute ago, Mikezz said:

Despite being tech-savvy, anyone can get hacked, as recent events have shown. That’s why I stopped using LastPass and now host my own instance of Bitwarden at home. Although, the fact that they were hacked may not be related to the use of a password manager at all.

I think the Scam works by phishing. Someone checking an email, then whoever sent it sends the bots to ping the API for changes for the channel it now has access to.

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I could only wish I had enough resources to include ltt channels on my youtube mirror (ofc its not a full mirror, just a tiny part of it). i am lucky that i was able to just fire a yt-dlp script to pull some of them. learn to use those tools boys

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So what now? Will all videos + views + likes ever be restored?

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9 minutes ago, Shrime said:

Techquicke live channel, how and why has this got 10k likes??
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bots that's why

 

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Just now, CAPSLUCK said:

Techquickie https://www.youtube.com/@tesla-us-now
And TechLinked https://www.youtube.com/@tesla-ltt
affected as well

You're about the 120th post saying that.

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9 minutes ago, Assimov said:

holy shit they deleted the channel ?

Don't think too hard on this; YouTube can just as easily restore everything.

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Just now, ramm said:

So what now? Will all videos + views + likes ever be restored?

up to youtube on this

 

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this is a 

 

 

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OMAGAH NO WAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

 

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Just now, ApexMeteor said:

I'm going to assume there is an automated script that did this but one of the scam videos is being advertised here:
 

Screenshot 2023-03-23 at 12-15-24 The LTT YouTube channel got hacked to push a crypto scam.png

no it's LMG's script that allows you to see the latest video

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1 hour ago, Seccedonien said:

YT can restore even deleted video's so no worries there tbh. But yeah they are streaming that 20(?) minute Elon Musk Bitcoin video that has been making the rounds on hacked channels.

I don't know why Youtube hasn't put in an algorithm to automatically detect (copyright should detect it in like 3 seconds), unlist and then keep the channel online long enough to actually get some useful information to stop them.  Its the same Modus Operandi, over and over again, they really should have this on lock down with algorithms by now.

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