Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked

[Kaas0001]

2 minutes ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

the forum would have crashed way quicker with 5 of these threads

It was overloaded a bit earlier lmao

[Apulo]

[Garns]

Just now, KatsuFm said:

Anyone else remember Luke complainining on WAN show about updating passwords, specifically senior management.

Luke has to be suspect number 1 for this, he did it to prove his point.

It'll be interesting to find out the method used, if it was simply a password, was it an old one? A reused one? Unsecured connection? Or a vulnerability within YouTube?  

Hopefully no permanent damage though, I can't imagine YouTube couldn't just snap fingers and undo this all anyway 

[MEGAMIM]

this gives all the feelings of a cookie stealing operation, this could be a persistant malware stealing your cookies to log into youtube(bypasses 2  factor auth)

[Marcii]

Lol

[GorujoCY]

Just now, Blqckqut said:

it was bc so many people are posting

yup all of them at once and it's still happening

[DaMegaTaco]

2 minutes ago, CheeseOnion said:

Corridor indeed got hacked and they explained everything. But that was something with Oresomething (the guys who got Twitter accs etc), right?

 

And yes, youtube was able to get everything rolled back, with minor complications

From what I remember it had something to do with one of the people in their group clicking a bad link or something... I could be wrong as I half watched the explanation once. Also not really sure what the minor complications were as like I said I didn't really follow up on the situation enough to get all the details.

That being said I bet LTT likely has all their videos backed up somewhere as I am sure they have enough extra storage space somewhere to keep everything backed up physically and maybe even on a cloud server somewhere as well.

[HantheMan]

Is this the first time LTT is getting hacked?

 

[FuchsFuchs1]

if you go to the scamm link couldflare will warn you for phishing

[infuriated fish]

3 minutes ago, Chef.Duran said:

I have noticed that people are putting super chats in these scam live streams. I don't think this is a good idea given that they are giving out money to some random hacker, correct me if I am wrong. 

probably for a good cause though... possibly preventing the handful of people who could try and use the links

[Kaas0001]

Just now, Eluminary said:

There's no way they're going to have the channel long enough to get payments from YouTube.  Unless they hacked all of their bank accounts too which is highly unlikely.  I sent a couple myself 

As long as the amount of money spent is less than what they otherwise wouldve scammed out, id say its a well spent investment

[Blqckqut]

Linus "Privacy Invasion" Tips

[pcislocked]

1 minute ago, Continuum said:

If they changed the money withdrawal accounts already, yeah, all proceeds going to scammers. Well, IDK how changing the details and withdrawing works—there should be a limitation of a minimum amount or something, but who knows? Maybe they've nabbed whatever LMG has not yet withdrawn.

thats not possible. adsense pays monthly, adding and verifying bank accounts on adsense is a lengthy process, and even if a wire is sent through its probably not the hardest thing to track it down

[Chriexpe]

oof

 

[rustable]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

Sure as hell remember it better than 9/11. I was having a massive dump while browsing the YooToobs.

[Geosmin]

1 minute ago, Blqckqut said:

it was bc so many people are posting

the forum is hosted on LMGs own iron, so with the influx of traffic from people wondering wtf is going on, its effectively being DDoSed rn

1 minute ago, VirusDumb said:

Is this related to the forum being down some half hour

[Blqckqut]

i think this is a good moment to say

 

FIRST!!!!

[Morris_lee_9116]

[Kaas0001]

Just now, DaMegaTaco said:

From what I remember it had something to do with one of the people in their group clicking a bad link or something... I could be wrong as I half watched the explanation once. Also not really sure what the minor complications were as like I said I didn't really follow up on the situation enough to get all the details.

That being said I bet LTT likely has all their videos backed up somewhere as I am sure they have enough extra storage space somewhere to keep everything backed up physically and maybe even on a cloud server somewhere as well.

They got a huge ass storage server, I think they do have the finished videos backed up. Also, YT can do a full recovery

 

And now that you mention it, indeed it was a very well imitated google acc (from what I can remember)

[btsierra]

2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Been like that for an hour, yeah.

Definitely processing things on YT's end, I'm seeing *really* old videos being re-added (FS700 Random Test Footage Featuring my Baby, Linus Tom and Esther Talk About NCIX's Achievements in 2011, etc).

[Eluminary]

Floatplane message 

[Arcanekitten]

I just got a notification that they posted something on floatplane. Only now when I go to floatplane I see that the channel is gone there too?  nvm traffic.

 

[Dracarris]

12 minutes ago, Blqckqut said:

mac is like the gucci of tech

 

you pay way too much of something thats basic quality

so even after all these years there are people still living under a rock

Hint: Check what laptops they released in the last two years and go find me a comparable (in every aspect) one.

[MEGAMIM]

2 minutes ago, Garns said:

It'll be interesting to find out the method used, if it was simply a password, was it an old one? A reused one? Unsecured connection? Or a vulnerability within YouTube?  

Hopefully no permanent damage though, I can't imagine YouTube couldn't just snap fingers and undo this all anyway 

this gives all the feelings of a cookie stealing operation, this could be a persistant malware stealing your cookies to log into youtube(bypasses 2  factor auth)

[FuchsFuchs1]

Just now, Blqckqut said:

i think this is a good moment to say

 

FIRST!!!!

wdym