Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked

[Kaas0001]

1 minute ago, Agall said:

North Korean hackers using Chrome extensions to steal Gmail emails (bleepingcomputer.com)

 

Potentially relevant?

If its true its ironic from Googles part

[Kaas0001]

1 minute ago, StopHackingLinus said:

Should we all buy LTT backpacks and screwdrivers to help keep Linus Media Group financially afloat during this hack crisis?

 

I'll be sad if Linus has to miss a couple mortgage payments and take his kids to a soup kitchen because of slimey Elon Crypto Hackers.

I think he has enough money to survive the day

And I dont mean this that we shouldnt support him whatsoever. , I' m just saying

[itsdeonLOL]

I hope everything works out... This is awful being hacked...

[Noamazia]

1 minute ago, YourNewsAnchor said:

I just saw this and it made me think about wan show will they miss it or will they just not stream to youtube

i dont think they will ever stop streaming or uploading to YT unless another platform overtakes them like YT did VINE. but i did think that maybe they will share their upcoming updates only on floatplain since YT is unavailable and they might think "if yt itself is going to make our lives harder by not helping in this matter, why should we go out of our way to come back sooner?" and it will be a good oprotunity to pull people to their FP platform.

5 minutes ago, daniel37parker said:

thats it all the channels that were hacked have been removed. still got lmgclips and csf lol

lmg clips, tech linked, movies, for fun channel and the apple one.

[WhyCheese]

Crazy that it takes hours for google to recover channel this size.

[vmuser846]

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[Blqckqut]

Just now, Noamazia said:

lmg clips, tech linked, movies, for fun channel and the apple one.

tech linked got hacked bro

[BondiBlue]

1 minute ago, YourNewsAnchor said:

I just saw this and it made me think about wan show will they miss it or will they just not stream to youtube

As of the last update from Linus he isn't sure if they're going to be able to do WAN Show this week. Hopefully they can, but it's not a big deal if they can't. 

[Winterlight]

It will be not easy job now for them recovery channels due Google rules is strict. From other side Google really need massive changes in how 2FA work that would makes impossible bypass 2FA just by stealing cookies.

[Agall]

You'd think LTT would be on a short list of accounts with such a reach that they'd prevent attacks like this in some way.

[Agall]

Best ad for Floatplane ever.

[Spotty]

I've added the notice Linus published to Floatplane to the top of the thread for anybody who doesn't have Floatplane or might have missed it in the comments in the thread.

 

Big thank you to everyone in the community for reporting this and showing support for the channels.

[StopHackingLinus]

1 minute ago, CheeseOnion said:

I think he has enough money to survive the day

And I dont mean this that we shouldnt support him whatsoever. , I' m just saying

I just feel bad because Linus is such a nice guy and doesn't deserve this nastiness --- why couldn't they take down the Tesla website or Trump's campaign site and really make the world a better place?

[Drazil100]

1 minute ago, StopHackingLinus said:

Should we all buy LTT backpacks and screwdrivers to help keep Linus Media Group financially afloat during this hack crisis?

 

I'll be sad if Linus has to miss a couple mortgage payments and take his kids to a soup kitchen because of slimey Elon Crypto Hackers.

Yes. But not because of this hack. YouTube has everything under control and the channel will be recovered just fine. Everything will be back to normal in no time and there is no way that this will seriously impact LMG. 

I hear the backpacks and screwdrivers are nice though so you should pick them up for that.

[littleneutrino]

Just now, Agall said:

Best ad for Floatplane ever.

Its all just a big conspiracy to get more Floatplane subs.

[Eluminary]

2 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

As of the last update from Linus he isn't sure if they're going to be able to do WAN Show this week. Hopefully they can, but it's not a big deal if they can't. 

I think if it is at all possible they will do one this week.  Just because they have that streak they are so proud of.  This was pretty bad though it might not happen.

[restokin]

3 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

As of the last update from Linus he isn't sure if they're going to be able to do WAN Show this week. Hopefully they can, but it's not a big deal if they can't. 

You read what he said incorrectly. He was inferring that they might not be able to discuss this event on the WAN show this week due to it only just occurring, not that the WAN show would not go ahead.

[CoolJosh3k]

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The good news is that you can expect to get your LTT fix on Floatplane as usual 

Sure, but the real reason Floatplane wasn’t hit is because of how much smaller of a target it is.

 

I doubt security of Floatplane is anywhere near what YouTube has, but this still happened to YouTube creators all the time.

 

I fully support Floatplane as healthy competition, but let’s be real: if Floatplane had an audience as big, then it’d have likely crumbled ages ago.

[Drazil100]

4 minutes ago, Agall said:

You'd think LTT would be on a short list of accounts with such a reach that they'd prevent attacks like this in some way.

100% impenetrable security doesn't exist. Anyone can get hacked. Even google's main servers could potentially get hacked.
LTT IS on the short list of creators that can contact YouTube directly though and I am sure the process to get their channel back to normal will be expedited. 

[NoGoat]

7 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

As of the last update from Linus he isn't sure if they're going to be able to do WAN Show this week. Hopefully they can, but it's not a big deal if they can't. 

Man, what a shitty way for the WAN Show streak to end

[sapnupuas]

Linus should check out this video about how this person's channel got stolen and recovered it within 3 hours:

originally if you want to recover it through the official ways might need a few days to weeks

[CoolJosh3k]

13 minutes ago, Winterlight said:

It will be not easy job now for them recovery channels due Google rules is strict. From other side Google really need massive changes in how 2FA work that would makes impossible bypass 2FA just by stealing cookies.

YouTube/Google: “Oopsie, looks like we had a security breach again. Don’t worry, we’ll fix that right up while we curiously stare into these Men in Black neuralyzers we bought on the dark web.”

[FangerZero]

All a ploy to get us to move to floatplane lmao j/k. Hope you guys resolve this soon

[Panda Stonetree]

Maybe I'm dumb, but why is it that I see Tesla-n-Idiot linked to so many hacks and spammers? 

[StopHackingLinus]

5 minutes ago, Drazil100 said:

Yes. But not because of this hack. YouTube has everything under control and the channel will be recovered just fine. Everything will be back to normal in no time and there is no way that this will seriously impact LMG. 

I hear the backpacks and screwdrivers are nice though so you should pick them up for that.

Not sure how I much I need the backpack since I'm 46 yrs. old but that LTT screwdrivers looks pretty nice.

 

What safeguards are in place to preserve all the YT videos?  You would think once you have full access to the account then you can delete everything rather easily, unless YouTube has some very robust backup strategies across multiple data centers (hopefully they do).