Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked

[Honik]

32 minutes ago, omnirocks said:

Someone created a fake 'new' channel and pretends to be communicating on the issue to gain followers quickly. Please report them as "impersonating another user" and just put "https://www.youtube.com/c/LMGClips" as the channel they're impersonating LTT since the LTT channel is down and it won't recognize it.

 

This is the fake channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips2.0

That is a good troll. Let him live
Seriously, would you blame someone that put up legitimate video "10 hours of LTT Sponsor Segments to fall asleep to"? I wouldn't, I will snooze to this one tonight and you better believe it

[Uttamattamakin]

Look what's Trending on Twitter.

 
Either there has been a horrible maritime plane crash (Please don't tell me there has been a horrible maritime plane crash), or Floatplane is having a good day.

[tsk]

8 minutes ago, Hope Noble said:

Didn't think it could happen to them.

Yeah self proclaimed tech savvies on here knows little about infosec. Goes for most LTT employees too.

 

Google has crap account security tho.

[tsk]

9 minutes ago, GodAtum said:

Surely it must be an inside job? Surely the channel has 2FA for login?

It's called cookie stealing and google 2fa is worthless.

[TechXplore]

14 minutes ago, Hope Noble said:

At least we know that all videos are save cause YT never deletes anything. 

You mean to tell me i can just easily contact youtube to get my old channel back?

[.bw]

2 minutes ago, TechXplore said:

You mean to tell me i can just easily contact youtube to get my old channel back?

Yes. Will you get it back, though? Highly unlikely.

[SOCOM_HERO]

I unsubbed this morning when I saw some weird livestream and now I can't find the channel to resub lol.

[TechXplore]

2 minutes ago, .bw said:

Yes. Will you get it back, though? Highly unlikely.

well, how do i contact youtube. I wanna try and see what happens

[BondiBlue]

Just now, SOCOM_HERO said:

I unsubbed this morning when I saw some weird livestream and now I can't find the channel to resub lol.

You can't find it because it doesn't exist right now. The main LTT channel along with Techquickie and TechLinked are all gone temporariily. 

[Mesure73Loafs]

1 minute ago, SOCOM_HERO said:

I unsubbed this morning when I saw some weird livestream and now I can't find the channel to resub lol.

The channel got deleted, that's why

[.bw]

2 minutes ago, TechXplore said:

well, how do i contact youtube. I wanna try and see what happens

That's the thing - you don't.

 

Anyway, now I wonder which Russian group is behind this... or somebody from a certain English forum, as nobody else really does cryptostreaming.

[Middleseed]

Looks like everything’s finally under some level of control. At least a lot more than last night when is last checked lol.

[urbanracer34]

All my feeds this morning were screaming "LTT HACKED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL"

 

Hope you guys are back soon! 

[korenm_mkaudio]

Damn, how this even happened...?

[YoyodynePropulsion.Systems]

I am guessing, at the least, someone will be getting a stern talking to.

[Arika]

I unsubbed knowing it was the ltt channel, my feed was being destroyed by the infinite shit spam uploads

[Foxientist]

At least this hack made me curious enough to discover this forum! I hope you will not only recover your channels soon, but also find what the attack vector was.

 

If it makes YouTube add some more security features, it will still be a big W.

[cretsiah]

so because you didnt back up all your vids how much has been lost?

maybe now it would be a good idea to have a back up on rumble?

for those of us that cant actually afford to get onto floatplane what are we going to do?

[Ajmkk]

Oof

 

[Robonwars]

1 minute ago, cretsiah said:

so because you didnt back up all your vids how much has been lost?

maybe now it would be a good idea to have a back up on rumble?

for those of us that cant actually afford to get onto floatplane what are we going to do?

evrything is back uped so probably 0 just get Flaotplane and u can see it too

[WhyCheese]

6 hours ago, LinusTech said:

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.

Stay strong.

[Jarsky]

30 minutes ago, GodAtum said:

Surely it must be an inside job? Surely the channel has 2FA for login?

2FA isnt infallable, it just makes it more difficult. If someone logs in on a network such as a masquerading wifi, and does their 2FA, then a MITM can be done to capture the session cookie data post-auth and boom. 

 

Theres plenty of ways to get around 2FA. But yeah, either they have got access to someones device with privileges on the channels, or someone has fallen into being connected to one of these networks. This is also why its bad to have WiFi in businesses that can reach outside which are on the main VLAN...because WPA2 is still susceptible to wifi phishing. 

[DERPmaster]

wow, just, wow like what happens when it goes back up, will Linus need a new Chanel, will his subscriber count reset?

[Jarsky]

3 minutes ago, cretsiah said:

so because you didnt back up all your vids how much has been lost?

maybe now it would be a good idea to have a back up on rumble?

for those of us that cant actually afford to get onto floatplane what are we going to do?

 

This sounds like you're complaining about free content?

 

I highly doubt that they reupload backups as it loses all their metrics. 

My understanding on YouTube is that videos arent actually deleted straight away. They're just marked as deleted and removed, much like a recycle bin. So YouTube can restore the content. Regardless, YouTube would also have their own backups which would include database and everything about your account. 

[Cakelestia]

I was just going to continue watching last WAN Show, but checked my notifications first only to see that LinusTechTipsTemp channel with that crypto BS and Musk in the thumbnail. I knew immediately that *stuff* hit the fan... hope it will be back up soon, had to watch RTFM instead XD