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On June 28, 2016 the Linus Media Group domain registrar account was compromised.

 

The exact methodology of the "hack" won't be disclosed for obvious reasons, but I can assure you that despite any claims to the contrary, the appropriate safeguards were in place on our side, and as I type this Yvonne is having a very heated phone discussion with the 3rd party responsible for the breach.

 

Anyway, the thing most of you are probably wondering about right now is what this means for your forum account or personal information, and the answer is very simple:

 

NOTHING.

 

The "hacker" simply changed the DNS settings in the dashboard and did not at any time have access to the linustechtips.com server. Any claims of a database dump are categorically false.

 

The compromised accounts - including Twitter - have been restored.

 

I hope this clears things up.

 

Linus

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3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

And what is that exactly? :P 

Between 1:00 (PDT) and 5:30 (NDT)

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1 minute ago, rm -rf said:

Between 1:00 (PDT) and 5:30 (NDT)

So not exactly specific... which is my point ;)

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16 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It's 2 AM here :D 

lol it's 4pm for me.

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30 minutes ago, rm -rf said:

pardon?

The ltt mantra,
do as we say, not as we do.

The amount of times that has been the quote on the start of a vid kinda sinks in :P

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31 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

So not exactly specific... which is my point ;)

But all of them still fit with what I'd said.

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21 minutes ago, Almighty_Spoon said:

The ltt mantra,
do as we say, not as we do.

The amount of times that has been the quote on the start of a vid kinda sinks in :P

Oh yeah xD

Though what was the relevance of that?

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1 minute ago, rm -rf said:

But all of them still fit with what I'd said.

well idk about you but I don't like to get up at 1 AM :P

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1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

well idk about you but I don't like to get up at 1 AM :P

I definitely don't either....................................

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1 minute ago, rm -rf said:

Oh yeah xD

Though what was the relevance of that?

Yeah this was 0% LTT or Linus' fault.  As he said, they did take all the proper precautions like 2 factor where available, etc.

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2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah this was 0% LTT or Linus' fault.  As he said, they did take all the proper precautions like 2 factor where available, etc.

Though I have found some flaws in a different part of Linus' online presence, and I've contacted them in order to report it.

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I slept through this, that was crazy. Sounds like 3rd party going to learn today errr, yesterday. HAVE A GOOD WEEK @LinusTech

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3 hours ago, thedarkdad3 said:

Just curious....out of this thread how many of you are actually Security Engineers and do this for a living and actually are certified or have gone to school .

nice signature resume you got there.... 

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9 hours ago, thedarkdad3 said:

You realize encryption can be broken and deciphered.  Hell Let @LinusTech pay me and my firm $30,000k and we will do it within a month. I somehow doubt he wants to get rekt again. hahaha

MD5, sure, that's easy. Go ahead and break something hashed with bcrypt. Lets see you compromise OpenVPN - even the NSA can't do it and they are a way bigger company than your company and your $30,000k.

 

If you were as good at security as you think you are, you would know how prevalent social engineering is these days, and how basically anyone posting any personal information on the internet, regardless of how private it may seem at first, is vulnerable. Even you are vulnerable. 


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These "Hacker" Kids seriously need to be stopped before their Egos get so big and out of control they burst

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The Hackers could have used their skills to shut down bad websites/social media accounts, instead of ruining for innocent Youtubers that a lot of people like watching.

You may get less famous for it, but it is in a good way, instead of a bad way.

People that are the serial killers of hacking, in the way that they dont care if most people hate them or not, they just want attention, they dont care if it is in a good or bad way.

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I hope at some point LMG will give us more information on what happened, or about the how, so that other people can find some good advice to better choose a 3rd party service. As far as I have understood, LMG is not directly responsible for the breach (last time I checked, they did not offer DNS services), what happened made me think of an interesting article I read some time ago about a similar matter, where GoDaddy was involved. Check it out.

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-24eb09e026dd#.56167b66c

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2 minutes ago, fulminemizzega said:

I hope at some point LMG will give us more information on what happened, or about the how, so that other people can find some good advice to better choose a 3rd party service. As far as I have understood, LMG is not directly responsible for the breach (last time I checked, they did not offer DNS services), what happened made me think of an interesting article I read some time ago about a similar matter, where GoDaddy was involved. Check it out.

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-24eb09e026dd#.56167b66c

I have a feeling that Google is the third party.

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2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I have a feeling that Google is the third party.

I don't think it's Google. Google, Dropbox, Facebook and a few other companies send emails to me as soon as one of my accounts have been signed in to (even from devices I sign into frequently), and sometimes even send a text message to my phone.

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4 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

Everyone really needs to stop speculating about who the 3rd party is.

 

It does nothing but spread FUD.

Yes, thank you :D

10 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Speculation has limited (or even potentially negative) value, and LMG will be the ones to release additional details as they see fit.

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3 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

Everyone really needs to stop speculating about who the 3rd party is.

 

It does nothing but spread FUD.

This is the internet. What you said will now be speculated into a confirmation of Half-Life 3.

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2 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Act like nothing happened on the WAN show

That would actually be hilarious.  Like just be completely deadpan about it and pretend it's a totally normal show xD 

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Hacking is one of the most intriguing, yet oblivious methods available for public knowledge. If the public cant learn how to do it, how do public hackers learn to?

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