My Channel Was Deleted Last Night.

[CPotter]

 

[aaradorn]

Really interested to see how this happened, social hacking? Spear-fishing? Exploit in youtube? Used an editor account?

[Autismo II]

10 minutes ago, CPotter said:

 

Did any of your servers come in handy for bringing the channels back online? They're fixed by now... and not overheating... right?

[Enanout]

Sooo glad the channel is back!

[MikeD8791]

"Someone on  our team, and I'm not saying it was Colton..." Man, looks like Colton is getting fired again  

[Veoronox]

Its sad how much channels get hacked lately due to these scams. Just like those telegram-scams in the commentsections. 

[pcislocked]

what about some un-unlisted videos momentarily popping up on main channel and people randomly reuploading them? they should get dmca'd i think 

[GOATWD]

i am sorry this happned a lot of work goan

[PreLighter]

Colton is always pre-fired

[owwnoooo]

R.I.P Colton :(

[SorryBella]

28 minutes ago, CPotter said:

 

 

Spoiler

But in all seriousness, glad LTT is back and noone at LMG is being scapegoated here. I hope Cookiejacking stops being a thing someday.

 

[Senzelian]

I'm glad that the channel is back, but while you were all busy fixing that, Alex managed to take over the forum 

 

[tartan]

how many times do think linus had the heart dropping feeling last night?

[Dutch_Master]

Sure glad LTT is back so quickly. Also good to see no scapegoats will be ritually sacrificed over this (not even Colton!) and LMG has learned a lot and willing to share to protect other, mainly smaller, channels.

 

Hopefully you guys can have a peaceful nights sleep now

[Shin-Gouki]

Nothing but love man. Have had to deal with catistrophic failures that are akin to this but obviously not the same. (Schoolwide Network loss and server failure being the most recent) Glad you got this sorted and props on taking ownership of it and not putting blame on anyone.

[PRSXFENG]

7 minutes ago, tartan said:

how many times do think linus had the heart dropping feeling last night?

We'll never know but I wonder how his reaction was when he saw that message from Steve at 3am

[Daash]

Aye @LinusTechwe appreciate the kind words as a community but it's you guys who taught us things we didn't know as kids/teenagers/adults/mid-aged man-women/etc, be it building a computer, helping us choose the right graphics card or even just reviewing a bunch of pantone colors lmao.. We always got your back as a community if shit goes down or up (That sounds a bit wrong going up but you get the point).. Seriously kudos to the guys who donated to super chat to raise the awareness like absolute legends! Stay safe!

[SpikeSpiegel]

Authy and 2FA are pretty much useless for now.  Meh....And Session Tokens are easy to get into as well.  Big ooooooof.

[LCXGG]

[WhiteAirLock]

I was right, this was probably a fake pdf file.

If you have file extension enabled, the filename would be something like sponsor.exe.pdf but if you don't have file extensions enabled, the file would be displayed as sponsor.pdf 

 

Here's how this works YouTube link

And to be honest, my old steam account was almost hacked that way but luckily Valve reacted and notified me about the sudden change of location and logged me off from all devices.

I tried to run a Macro which was named antiAFKkick.ahk but with file extensions enabled, the file name turned out to be  antiAFKkick.exe.ahk 

[GreatnessRD]

Damn, got my mans Linus stressin' at 4 in the mornin'! Glad everything is back to normal.

[SamuYoung]

Hi Linusteam,

 

in my company we are using Okta for protect our account for all types.

It's perfect for managing sessions and cookies in the easy way.

Try to give it a shot!

 

And if you need more info you are free to ask.

 

[Mirano]

Linus is the buttnaked-man we need at 3am to fix this! great job

[ProngsOldGuy]

1 hour ago, CPotter said:

 

I got Similar Experience on october last year. And I already warn people of this kind of hijacking.. I hope this will be the last.

[Aleksey]

It's actually incorrect to say that Instagram does not protect its users. Some time ago I logged in to Instagram, which I rarely use. Even though I logged in on the same device I use for years, it blocked all actions on the site. I could not follow anyone (the main reason I logged in this time), I could not change anything in my account for almost week. Only after approximately a week, I was able to use my account.