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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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When is the next WAN show usually scheduled for? I usually don’t watch them live but this one will be interesting…

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Are there random videos of other channels mixed in or something? There are random videos of people I've never seen on LTT.

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2 hours ago, MrAeral said:

I don't know why people are doing this. If it says do not upload, then it must contain something bad in it. People are so mean nowadays, I can imagine how Linus is feeling right now, his day is probably ruined.

Not only that, the bigger question is how did this happyweekend2343 channel get access to this content in the first place and why did they release it after the hack.

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Just now, Fasterthannothing said:

Are there random videos of other channels mixed in or something? There are random videos of people I've never seen on LTT.

There are a ton of videos showing on the channel right now that aren't supposed to be public. They're supposed to be private or unlisted videos. 

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Just got a couple of hours of 'somewhat sleep' (actually lost sleep over this event), waking up to see LTT is coming back. LMG staff for sure have been working hard on this to get their channel back. Geez this has been a scare, damn hackers. Very gald it's back because what else am i going to watch when eating!

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I unsubbed last night (Australian time) when it all happened as it was wrecking my subscription feed.  

Might wait until the dust dies down to resub since it still seems to be all over the place.

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2 minutes ago, SuperDLOC said:

When is the next WAN show usually scheduled for? I usually don’t watch them live but this one will be interesting…

Tomorrow evening.

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7 minutes ago, dpt17 said:

The LTT handle is fixed but the videos are the old ones accidentally shown earlier this AM.

if you scroll down, the newer ones will show up.

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If Linus is planning to do WAN show tomorrow and update the public, where will it be streamed from?

 

I saw the LinusTechTips channel name change to linustechtipstemp in the early hours. I also saw the Adobe video being commended - though it didn't play when I tapped on it. I admit, that would've been interesting to watch!

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2 minutes ago, SuperDLOC said:

When is the next WAN show usually scheduled for? I usually don’t watch them live but this one will be interesting…

Scheduled? xD

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4 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

There are a ton of videos showing on the channel right now that aren't supposed to be public. They're supposed to be private or unlisted videos. 

Thankfully they are all from a million years ago. God forbid something more recent becomes available. 

 

 

Apparently some genius got flags mixed up and all the private videos are public... 

 

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Can't believe this is what the recovery process is. I've seen it happen before on other channels, still can't believe it is this much of a clusterfuck. And why the channel is public during this. 

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1 minute ago, Leon K said:

I unsubbed last night (Australian time) when it all happened as it was wrecking my subscription feed.  

Might wait until the dust dies down to resub since it still seems to be all over the place.

I unsubscribed this morning when I saw it was weird live stream nonsense. I didn't realize it was the LTT channel; I thought a kid subscribed to something on my account through the Nvidia Shield. But when the channel came back moments ago I was still subscribed to it.

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Just now, Ferkner said:

I unsubscribed this morning when I saw it was weird live stream nonsense. I didn't realize it was the LTT channel; I thought a kid subscribed to something on my account through the Nvidia Shield. But when the channel came back moments ago I was still subscribed to it.

same here, but now my sub box has a million old LTT videos pushing other subscribed channel content down

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Just now, SLN said:

If Linus is planning to do WAN show tomorrow and update the public, where will it be streamed from?

 

I saw the LinusTechTips channel name change to linustechtipstemp in the early hours. I also saw the Adobe video being commended - though it didn't play when I tapped on it. I admit, that would've been interesting to watch!

While they will probably have their YouTube back by tomorrow https://www.twitch.tv/linustech is a good alternative free source of the WAN Show if you don't have floatplane. Just be prepared to be made fun of by Linus for being a part of Twitch chat. He makes a strong effort to avoid ever making fun of his audience but Twitch chat deserves it. xD

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2 minutes ago, lowstrife said:

Thankfully they are all from a million years ago. God forbid something more recent becomes available. 

 

 

I'm pretty sure this video is not intended to be public. Apparently some genius got flags mixed up and all the private videos are public... 

 

Can't believe this is what the recovery process is. I've seen it happen before on other channels, still can't believe it is this much of a clusterfuck. 

Wow what the heck an 8k monitor!!

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You know what may be the hardest thing to get back ALLL the old video descriptions.  LIke who the heck would think to backup video descriptions.  

 

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4 minutes ago, lowstrife said:

Thankfully they are all from a million years ago. God forbid something more recent becomes available. 

 

 

Apparently some genius got flags mixed up and all the private videos are public... 

 

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Can't believe this is what the recovery process is. I've seen it happen before on other channels, still can't believe it is this much of a clusterfuck. And why the channel is public during this. 

oh there are definitely new videos that are supposed to be private

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Damn ... who was opening spam email on the PC that had cookies installed to access the LMG account?

Or maybe it could be done on a phone?

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8 minutes ago, Leon K said:

I unsubbed last night (Australian time) when it all happened as it was wrecking my subscription feed.  

Might wait until the dust dies down to resub since it still seems to be all over the place.

Yeah for some reason the flood is happening now... I need to unsub until it wrecks my entire youtube home.... having all crypto nonsense after I watched 2 mins of the silly live last night and now its flooding me

 

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The bilibili Channels is OK? Be Capful the hacker! 

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1 minute ago, Uttamattamakin said:

You know what may be the hardest thing to get back ALLL the old video descriptions.  LIke who the heck would think to backup video descriptions.  

 

I doubt they are gone forever. The hack was stopped relatively quickly and YouTube would be foolish to delete video files, descriptions, and comments immediately from their records. I am sure if the channels are public again that everything will be back by tomorrow.

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So the posting of videos that were never meant to be posted… for example the one of his kid as a baby or the ones that say do not post. Is this YouTube’s fault or the hackers fault? I would sue the hell out of YouTube if it’s their fault honestly. 

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