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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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8 minutes ago, Blqckqut said:

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

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

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Just now, pcislocked said:

I wished 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

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

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Youtube can restore it, Corridor Crew got hit a few years back.

 

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1 minute ago, RodgerDodg3r said:

There is any official statement from ltt crew? 

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

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2 minutes ago, Assimov said:

holy shit they deleted the channel ?

*terminated

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1 minute ago, ramm said:

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

Youtube has backups. my guess is it will all be back within a couple hours.

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1 minute ago, RodgerDodg3r said:

There is any official statement from ltt crew? 

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

 

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I believe that an employee working for the sponsorships got phished as this has the same behaviour as the Redline Stealer, which typically targets fake sponsorships. These 3 channels that got hacked could've been on the same Google account.

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2 minutes ago, Lunarlancer said:

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

yup, they have all the tools, they are just lazy.

i bet it can be resolved even before linus wakes up.. (if hes still asleep which is probably not)

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Yes, one by one all channels are being hacked and they are changing the videos to private which you can still watch if you have the links. I hope this gets over soon.

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Man... I hope people don't start unsubbing just because of this.

Seriously, it's crazy how it keeps happening. Always the same Tesla cryptoscam doing it.

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

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1 minute ago, Marcii said:

they would have just deleted it because they arent dumb

it was a video from like 10 years ago so who knows. I mean they had a bunch of old ads and such as well leaked, so they probably usually don't completely delete videos. I didn't see if this particular video had some highly sensitive information, but it could have had, even if Linus or someone else hadn't had noticed it.

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Just now, CoreyFox said:

Youtube has backups. my guess is it will all be back within a couple hours.

maybe not if youtube is being a asshole again
doupt it tho

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1 minute ago, RealGoose said:

We still have… Mac Address 🤷‍♂️

and like other 3 channels

 

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Just now, Creaous said:

I believe that an employee working for the sponsorships got phished as this has the same behaviour as the Redline Stealer, which typically targets fake sponsorships. These 3 channels that got hacked could've been on the same Google account.

I guess so too as well. That might explain why MacAddress is still up... That is just crazy

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8 minutes ago, Crashbash111 said:

It does make me wonder if these hacks are related to the recent LastPass breaches or if its just some other form of social engineering attack

Probably unlikely noting they'd probably have 2FA enabled. There was a home automation youtuber that experienced the same hack a few weeks back from opening a screensaver (.scr) file that was disguised as a PDF (which I'm guessing probably stole his browser cookies) so might've been the same thing here.

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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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