Techlinked hacked again?

[martixy]

This is getting silly at this point...

 

Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

[filpo]

1 minute ago, martixy said:

This is getting silly at this point...

 

Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

its happening in UK too as well as italy. Might have gotten hacked again cuz i'm pretty sure its not the latter

[filpo]

15 minutes ago, martixy said:

This is getting silly at this point...

 

Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

when i click on the new techlinked video 

[Isuck Assimov]

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[Needfuldoer]

All together now... Damn it, Colton!

 

TechLinked currently doesn't show up as a channel under LTT (or any of the other LMG channels):

 

 

Here's the message I got from an embedded player on the subreddit:

 

 

Uh-oh.

[Levent]

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You would think that they learned their lesson.

[Sher khan 5050]

I was just viewing a video then went back to the channel and it says it got terminated.

[filpo]

31 minutes ago, martixy said:

This is getting silly at this point...

 

Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

this you Colton? 

[Needfuldoer]

1 minute ago, Sher khan 5050 said:

I was just viewing a video then went back to the channel and it says it got terminated.

(I cropped the screenshot for the quote box)

 

I only have one thing to say about this.

 

 

 

[rrats]

If I had a nickel for every time LTT got hacked in 2023, I'd have 2 nickles. It's not much but it's weird that it happened twice

-the man from phineas and febr

[amateurstuntman]

It's the middle of the night there too.

Again.

 

[Arika]

sooo. i guess what ever processes they put in place when this happened last time, didn't get followed.

[Needfuldoer]

12 minutes ago, Arika S said:

sooo. i guess what ever processes they put in place when this happened last time, didn't get followed.

Or this is some kind of aftershock from the last hijacking. Maybe someone at YouTube pressed the wrong button, or an automated system acted on crypto scam residue still clinging to it somewhere.

 

EDIT: There's also this:

And this:

 

Nothing on the official TechLinked Twitter account yet.

 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Needfuldoer

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, martixy said:

This is getting silly at this point...

 

Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

i'm in the netherlands, down for me too. 

[Continuum]

Is it Colton again? Maybe Riley, it's his channel after all.

[martixy]

9 minutes ago, amateurstuntman said:

It's the middle of the night there too.

Again.

 

Maybe that's why I was the first. It's noon here. I just had lunch.

 

This is gonna be a funny video after Linus' serious "everybody do better" last one.

[amateurstuntman]

Could be.

I'm on UTC+1, they're on UTC-7
If it is a deliberate attack it would make sense to do it at that time.

Wasn't there reports of an exploit where you can cause channels to get taken down by causing strikes on their channel?

It could be something like that.

[Gokul_P]

1 hour ago, Needfuldoer said:

 

 

Its definitely this somebody downloaded some .pdf.exe again :{.

[lukiyus]

Reddit Topic

[Kaas0001]

Another nice sponsor deal

[Vishera]

LMG needs to rethink their cyber-security practices because it doesn't work.

Maybe they need cyber-security specialists to perform an audit and teach them a thing or two.

[KenTees]

Luke has been itching for that same adrenaline rush

[Vishera]

[saintlouisbagels]

Did the channel actually get hacked though? No one's posted any screencaps of offending content.

[FrozenIpaq]

1 hour ago, Vishera said:

LMG needs to rethink their cyber-security practices because it doesn't work.

Maybe they need cyber-security specialists to perform an audit and teach them a thing or two.

Something like that doesn't happen overnight. They clearly understand the need for improved cybersecurity and processes internally, but the cookie session piece isn't solely just on them - the fact that these cookies can be stolen and re-used without requiring a user to log back in is the more concerning element here. 

 

They've already mentioned working on implementing safeguards against this, but like I said, that doesn't happen overnight. 

 

It's in their best interest to make sure this doesn't happen again - so they're definitely on top of it but again, they're a case of a company that's gotten extremely large, extremely fast and that comes with its own set of challenges.