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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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2 minutes ago, ashjonas said:

Youtube has taken down all the hacked channels. Hoping that nobody was scammed during this.

People did got scammed 

49 minutes ago, FSP said:

I did some digging on the wallets they listed and it looks like about 37 people fell for this. You can also see the wallet totals. It could be that they use multiple wallets, but they didn't change for me, when refreshing their page.

 

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2 minutes ago, ashjonas said:

Youtube has taken down all the hacked channels. Hoping that nobody was scammed during this.

mulriple ppl got scammed but not that many (17/18000000)

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11 minutes ago, _SKELETO_ said:

I wonder then, if something as large as an entire youtube group of channels can be taken like this, what hope for security is there for smaller, less financially capable entities? And I deffo wanna know which password locker LTT was using, cause I wanna know what to avoid...

Unless you’re big enough, then YouTube doesn’t care. You don’t make them enough money to justify the employee’s time.

 

Take Markiplier for example. YouTube killed his first channel, but he came back real strong. Now YouTube will bend over backwards and lick any part of Mark’s body.

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28 minutes ago, Drazil100 said:

I am gonna side with them. 2FA (when done correctly) is not a scam/hack. The idea of 2FA is that you need something you have (usually some physical device like a keycard or something) and something you know (a password) so that if someone gets one of your login credentials they can't get the other. If they steal your device for instance that doesn't mean they can get your password and if they get your password in a phishing attempt that doesn't mean they have the physical key to log in.

 

2FA is often implemented incorrectly or in a significantly less secure way. For instance no one should ever use SMS for 2FA and while email is slightly better you should REALLY have it tied to the physical device and not accessible through an account.

2FA isn't a magic bullet however. In this case it sounds like the attack essentially stole their login session, bypassing the need to login at all. This is REALLY stupid on google's part if this is true though I am only speculated based on what I have heard.

Cookies for keeping an authentication session alive is not Google-specific. It's an every-website-ever thing. 2FA is effective against stolen/guessed credentials, and not targeted phishing or computer compromise of any kind.

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Big blow for Tech Fans 😒

“The more you learn, the more you know.

The more you know, the more you forget.

The more you forget, the less you know.

So why bother to learn.”

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So it appears that Youtube have taken down The LTT main channel. let's hope they (youtube) have put the account on lockdown mode so no one else can access only them can

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29 minutes ago, restokin said:

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.

Maybe you're right, but with the wording in the message from Linus it could be taken either way. 

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3 of my accounts got hacked recently too, epic games, gmail and microsoft

 

anyone else thinking that hackers are really stepping up their game and major companies who are suposed to protect their users ARENT?

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From people who mention 2FA is a scam.. over people who still post which channels were hacked, even hours after the incident... could we please talk about those two individuals? (no hate)

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20 minutes ago, RockyRZ said:

Is that how they got hacked? Stolen cookies?

I've seen tons of youtube creator got hacked by their session cookies stolen, this is probably the easiest way to gain access, see one of the creator got hacked from the previous post I posted on this thread

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53 minutes ago, FSP said:

I did some digging on the wallets they listed and it looks like about 37 people fell for this. You can also see the wallet totals. It could be that they use multiple wallets, but they didn't change for me, when refreshing their page.

 

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Does this mean these hackers got out (so far) with 10,000 USD+?

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Did i found a new one or it's fake Channel? Please reply 

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Hoping for a swift resolution of this messed up situation, you guys truly don't deserve this.

Look at this bright side, some cool content will come out of this!? 🙂

Stay strong!

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1 minute ago, Romikovec said:

Did i found a new one or it's fake Channel? Please reply 

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This is 100% a fake channel, don't fall for this

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you should probably have left the banner warning up on the forum until the channels are reinstated (to stop spam in the forum).

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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, Romikovec said:

Did i found a new one or it's fake Channel? Please reply 

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I doub't it.  I'd not click on anything calling itself  linustechtips2.0 or temp or whatever.  

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2 minutes ago, Romikovec said:

Did i found a new one or it's fake Channel? Please reply 

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It's fake, dont fall for these

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