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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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1 minute ago, Eluminary said:

Well they have said that is onE of the reasons floatplane exsists.  It's pretty unlikely that will happen imo but I did just subscribed to floatplane... Mostly so I can watch the wan show this week if the YouTube stuff doesn't get fixed

the other channels got hacked too

 

 

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1 minute ago, askja said:

That’s terrible. I really hope YouTube is able to fix that.

Thats just Techquickie

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1 minute ago, RealGoose said:

We still have… Mac Address 🤷‍♂️

who cares about that
yes i have a iMac, a iMac from 2010 lmao

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Just now, Plato1990 said:

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I would say I almostm laughed only because that's not the time to be memeing

 

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1 minute ago, Eluminary said:

Well they have said that is onE of the reasons floatplane exsists.  It's pretty unlikely that will happen imo but I did just subscribed to floatplane... Mostly so I can watch the wan show this week if the YouTube stuff doesn't get fixed

I've also decided to jump back on Floatplane. Haven't been subscribed since the Floatplane "Forum" days post-vessel, but figure why not given the circumstances. That and so I don't miss WAN if it takes a while to get fixed!

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Just now, Assimov said:

If any personal user informationfrom the forum is compromised during this "hack" we gon start a class action lawsuit fellas

What personal info. Your email? Chances are, they already got that from one of the 100000 leaks we see every year from other services. 
Plus, this is clearly just an attack on the youtube channel. The forum is 100% separate. If it was affected, I'd be really surprised.

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1 minute ago, GorujoCY said:

Was thinking of emailing them but if I had to guess they are taking the Solving before PR approach

 

They're probably just waking up.  I'm in the same timezone as them and it's still dead early in the morning for me.

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Is it hard for Youtube to return the LTT, Techquickie, Techlinked handles on Youtube? I saw some forum members helping by reserving them lol

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1 minute ago, Continuum said:

And what? Rewatch old videos? Unless you're some sort of archivist, what's the use of downloading all the videos?

so basically i am that "unless youre archivist" part.

i have some extra scripts re-check those channels and mark the videos that were removed but is still in the archive. its always kinda fun to see them. thats all. its mostly some cherry-picked turkish channels though since i dont have petabytes of storage... 

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2 minutes ago, Daash said:

It's like 3-4am in Canada I think lmao

0522 in the morning. CTO and friends are going to wake up to a nasty situation.

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1 minute ago, frankle said:

WAN Show will be one to watch this weekend!

 

I just subscribed to floatplane for that specifically in case the YouTube stuff isn't fixed by then

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I mean they sure have a backup of every video

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LMG has video archives, so even if they are deleted, they can reupload

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5 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Plus, this is clearly just an attack on the youtube channel. The forum is 100% separate. If it was affected, I'd be really surprised.

Linus' Twitter account is also "private". So who knows what's going on.

 

Edit: Or it was. Does seem to be gone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This is very frustrating to see it happen to LTT. I've been following Linus for over a decade.

I just subscribed to Floatplane as support.

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6 minutes ago, Sven Hoek said:

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HACKED

Everybody unsubbed

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yup that's what others told me when they got aware of the situation

1 minute ago, trekkie1701c said:

They're probably just waking up.  I'm in the same timezone as them and it's still dead early in the morning for me.

 

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Just now, Emiko said:

Too late mate the channel was terminated..

wait wtf really

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the newer channels haven't been affected by this, Mac address and short circuit seem normal......

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8 minutes ago, 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. The video was probably intended to be deleted afterwards, but as it was just left as unlisted or private, it was likely forgotten.

It would be very smart to not do that under their main channel or even any channel that is managed from that account.. just use someones private channel or a different service like vimeo.

Or Dropbox or Google Drive or anything else.. but not your bloody main YT channel..

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