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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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Clever move by the hackers, setting it to only 15+ year subscribers can chat.

 

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EDIT: Gradually clawing control back...

 

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Just now, TechlessBro said:

YT will likely bring them back, most accounts get everything back in a few days. Sadly sometimes they don’t recover them all.

cmon 15million subscribers

yt will do that

Dual X5690 my beloved.

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1 minute ago, webstaff said:

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.

Assuming LMG as a BCM 😅

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The stream was I think accidentally unlisted by the hackers, I can see it again rn,

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Just now, webstaff said:

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.

Yes hopefully, they have a way to emergency call linus or luke 

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Man i would love to be a bug on the wall when they discuss who fucked up and clicked that phishing link :'D

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In these cookie hijack sessions which is what happened by the looks of it, they hide the videos don't delete them.

Also because they hijack the cookies, they just have auto login access no ability to change the channels passwords etc.

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1 minute ago, Megaminer12347 said:

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What does temporary handle mean??

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I feel for whoever on the team whose job it is that's gonna have a hectic day having to deal with all this when they wake up 😕

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Could this have been related to the LastPass breach? I recall the WAN show discussing that they'd moved to a new password manager so i assume ther had been with LastPass.

Maybe someone used something from the breach or something happened during the change to a new provider.

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Well everyone pat on the back that was one of the fastest turn offs of a channel thats been hacked.

 

Looking forward to hearing about this on Friday.

Wonder if Linus will have any hot takes..

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The best thing to do for now is for youtube is to hire the best white hacker out there to track where the stream came from and capture the black hacker on the spot. It is not good to see them hack without justice.

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The channel now has the logo back. Let the staff work, this is something LTT probably has a contingency plan for, and it's nearly 4AM over there.

Godspeed LTT.

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Hacking them while it's the middle of the night in Vancouver... clever move. Videos are unlisted and Youtube team is probably already aware by now. My guess is everything should be back up fairly soon, but LMG's morning meeting will be interesting to say the least.

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seems like it but those 2 streams seem to sugggest otherwise

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Name has now changed to LinusTechTipsTemp as well as their link handle to @temporaryhandle. This is wild.

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