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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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1 minute ago, Dogger3D said:

Anyone Got the Youtube handles except @linusTechtipps i cant get my hands on any of the TechLinked TechQuickie etc.

no one can get them. they are put on a 14-day cooldown every time a chnanel changes handles.

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Just now, pcislocked said:

this was the main page just before the channel went down... 

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i tried to post a screenshot but upload was broken

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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Seems like the TechLinked account has also been compromised. And its new name is "tesla-ltt".

 

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is there anything we can do to support LTT in the mean time?

 

ive subbed to all the channels, will be jumping on a floatplane subscription once i'm home

 

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what if the channel doesnt get recovered because of youtube being... well youtube...

Dont forget to mark as solution if your question is answered

Note: My advice is amateur help/beginner troubleshooting, someone else can probably troubleshoot way better than me.

- I do have some experience, and I can use google pretty well. - Feel free to quote me I may respond soon.

 

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all techlinked videos are unlisted now u can only watch some from the playlist section

 

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Just now, pcislocked said:

no one can get them. they are put on a 14-day cooldown every time a chnanel changes handles.

yeah 

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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1 minute ago, Piipperi said:

Probably depends on your country or state laws, but I'd personally just not download them to do more damage. I saw one video which was a screen recording from a Windows Server 2012. Could have some really sensitive information.

what was the name ? i might have seen it too

Marci

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5 minutes ago, Marcii said:

is it illegal to download all the leaked videos?

woot, there are leaked videos?

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2 minutes ago, Marcii said:

i THINK its was terminated bec yt wanted to help out ltt and just locket the channel

Yeah, reasonable.

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2 minutes ago, Dogger3D said:

Anyone Got the Youtube handles except @linusTechtipps i cant get my hands on any of the TechLinked TechQuickie etc.

so they are still bound to the original account. You can't claim them and YouTube will prods just give it back to Linus once he appeals 

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1 minute ago, Continuum said:

Ah, that makes sense. I thought they were facing a DoS attack against the forum simultaneously.

Yeah, it's easy to get carried away. I don't know anything for sure, but I just figured I'd share my intuitive read of the situation to hopefully help people panic less.

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1 minute ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

i tried to post a screenshot but upload was broken

yeah, forum is shitting itself rn

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DPReview is shutting down, LMG YouTube channels get hacked, what the fuck is next?

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Damn they got all the channels, LTT, Techquickie, TechLinked. Clearly a top level person got hacked.

 

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Just now, Halfblood11 said:

is there anything we can do to support LTT in the mean time?

Thoughts and prayers! Definitely thoughts and prayers! And send them some cake.

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It's spectacular that these Bitcoin Scam Videos thing is still running. You should think everybody and his dog knows meanwhile that this is a scam. I really wonder how much money they make.

Furthermore, LTT should invest into some YubiKeys...

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Just now, Blqckqut said:

what if the channel doesnt get recovered because of youtube being... well youtube...

no chance they have direct contact with youtube staff ... very big channels have contacts for...well those sorts of situations

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Is it possible that the password leak of that password manager LMG was using got all the juicy stuff decrypted? But then there should've been 2FA too.

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Man this situation is making me hate Musk fanboys, the way they plaster their god's face and company on the scams they make...

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