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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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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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4 minutes ago, Anvith said:

Live streams are now disabled on LTT聽

its back again 馃槶

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from thoushands of videos down to 13

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no more shorts

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wan show slowly going.

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1 minute ago, aaLuhVehRuh said:

Either LMG was hacked, or the transition to the new Password Manager went smoothly as a pineapple.
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Most likely thing to happen is probably a cookie hijack.

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Btw is like3am in Canada. Linus sleeping rn while this is happing Xd

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The videos will be fine although it might take a few days to bring them all back.

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Great opportunity to mention that floatplane is unaffected and they may want your money to make up for the lack of ads today!

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Ohhhh....

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Well, always look on the bright side, at least YT is ran by the world's biggest datahoarder to which 1PB project is just a grain of sand at the beach so nothing will be permanently lost.

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But damn, LTT getting hacked is kind of big "oof". Also YT not taking everything down in few minutes is also kind of hilarious, +15M sub channel gets hacked and over 15 minutes later they haven't yet cut all the wires and wait for official contact from the channel owner.

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All vids have been unlisted, these heckers are not letting me eat my ramen noodles 馃槶

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4 minutes ago, Keepingitsimple said:

just looked them up on socialblade聽https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw/monthly聽def botted subs and prob views

they got hacked

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- I do have some experience, and I can use google pretty well. - Feel free to聽quote me聽I may respond soon.

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Just now, TechlessBro said:


looks like they started to remove the old videos, there were 600+ now it鈥檚 only a few.

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NOOOOOOOOOOO

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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(hopefully) they're taking it back as we speak

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Just now, Milchgl_s said:

Btw is like3am in Canada. Linus sleeping rn while this is happing Xd

hopefully they have one of the FP devs who works abroad on call for things like this..

You'd expect they have a plan for this in there BCM doc.

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1 minute ago, TechlessBro said:


looks like they started to remove the old videos, there were 600+ now it鈥檚 only a few.

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they prolly just made it unlisted

Dont forget to mark as solution if your question is answered

Note: My advice is amateur help/beginner troubleshooting, someone else can probably troubleshoot way better than me.

- I do have some experience, and I can use google pretty well. - Feel free to聽quote me聽I may respond soon.

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Join team Red, my apprentice

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STOP SIDING WITH NVIDIA

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Setup:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D /聽Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX 24GB / ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming / Cooler Master ML360 Illusion CPU Cooler / EVGA SuperNova 850 G2 / Lian Li Dynamic Evo White Case / 2x16 GB Kingston FURY RAM / 2x 1TB Lexar 710 / iiYama 1440p 165HZ Montitor, iiYama 1080p 75Hz Monitor / Shure MV7 w/ Focusrite Scarlett Solo / GK61 Keyboard / Cooler Master MM712 (daily driver) Logitech G502-X (MMO mouse) / Soundcore Life Q20 w/ Arctis 3 w/ WF-1000XM3

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CPU OC: -30 all cores @AutoGhz

GPU OC: 3Ghz Core 2750Mhz Memory w/ 25%W increase (460W)

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nope, steam is up again, AND OFC YT DISABLED DISLIKES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

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3 minutes ago, Monsterkater said:

As far as I can tell they're just flagging them as unlisted, at least for now ...

They have all their video's backuped on multiple locations. so worst case they can reupload everything

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3 minutes ago, Misterchamp said:

luckily they only unlisted the videos and didnt fully delete them, so LTT can still get all their videos back

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Yeah but youtube can even backup delete videos. Happend a german youtuber last year.

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