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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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Posted by LinusTech,

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, Alpha XVIV said:

hell yeah brother

 

I'm hoping this is recoverable. In past incidents happening on other channels YouTube was able to reverse the damage 

From what I noticed they are hidden since you can still watched them.

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1 minute ago, Blqckqut said:

bro what are u on about

idk 

anyways ima go make youtube cringe clickbait about this

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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Live streams are now disabled on LTT 

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Looks like they are on it my stream just went down.

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Oh man, whoever messed up, my hearts going out to them.  They must be absolutely crushed.

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6 minutes ago, Jam Rocket said:

The Bstards are currently deleting videos

Everything is gone

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Still showing the LTT logo and name in the search and able to play videos.

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6 minutes ago, Jam Rocket said:

The Bstards are currently deleting videos

 

2 minutes ago, valenb4 said:

all last 10 months are either off or gone.

 

 

1 minute ago, Alpha XVIV said:

hell yeah brother

 

I'm hoping this is recoverable. In past incidents happening on other channels YouTube was able to reverse the damage 

They're flagging the videos as unlisted.

 

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That's actually a clever move by the hackers. If they deleted videos, then existing embeds and links would break. That would raise suspicion. Unlisted videos can still be linked to and embedded, so it's not as noticeable. I highly doubt they're doing it this way out of benevolence.

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2 minutes ago, Blqckqut said:

bro what are u on about

I'm seeing the same issue unfortunately.
When visiting youtube.com/linustechtips, it shows 'Tesla'. But if you then click on say, Channels, it changes URL to teslalive whatever. 
I don't think this is a hack, but rather suddenly youtube fudging up? 

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Direct links to the video's still work. There 'just' hidden. At least for now ... 

 

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I'm sure youtube will restore it all back to normal.... rrright?

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theyre just unlisting videos, not completely deleting them.

 

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2 minutes ago, peotr26 said:

Hopefully, due to the size of the channel, let's hope that LMG can get the channel back rapidly.

I'm sure they will get it back.
I'm curious how this all happend and what the going forward is going to be

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Just now, HawkinEagul said:

I'm seeing the same issue unfortunately.
When visiting youtube.com/linustechtips, it shows 'Tesla'. But if you then click on say, Channels, it changes URL to teslalive whatever. 
I don't think this is a hack, but rather suddenly youtube fudging up? 

then why am i subscribed to it?

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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2 minutes ago, Keepingitsimple said:

https://www.youtube.com/@teslaliveonline1/featured its weird i got randomly subbed to this channel and got a notif for a elon musk stream. Then looked at the vids and its all ltt, the tag is super weird i assume its a reuploader but... idk weird 

No they got hacked

 

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1 minute ago, webstaff said:

Looks like they are on it my stream just went down.

Same streams are down

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Just now, HawkinEagul said:

I'm seeing the same issue unfortunately.
When visiting youtube.com/linustechtips, it shows 'Tesla'. But if you then click on say, Channels, it changes URL to teslalive whatever. 
I don't think this is a hack, but rather suddenly youtube fudging up? 

nope its a hack, ive owned channels before, u can make ur own custom link for ur channel, id shoz u but i cant post mine here haha

also the @ you can change

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Rip Linus Tech Tips bruh

Yeah Stream are down but last Video is 7 years ago on my side.

 

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Seems like all the videos have been unlisted already.

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I have reported to, the stream has been shutdown 

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