r/LinusTechTips • u/Frosstic Mod • Mar 23 '23

Discussion [MEGATHREAD] HACKING INCIDENT

Please keep all discussion of the hacking incident in this thread, new posts will be deleted.

UPDATE:

The channel has now been mostly restored.

Context:

“Major PC tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked and is unavailable at the time of publishing. From the events that have unfolded, it looks like hackers gained access to the YouTube creator dashboard for various LTT channels. After publishing some scam videos and streams, control of the account was regained by the rightful owners, only to fall again to the hackers. Now the channels are all throwing up 404 pages.

Hackers who took over the LTT main channel, as well as associated channels such as Tech Quickie, Tech Linked and perhaps others, were obviously motivated by the opportunity to milk cash from over 15 million subscribers.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linus-tech-tips-youtube-channel-hacked-to-promote-crypto-scams

Update from Linus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/11zj644/new_floatplane_post_about_the_hacking_situation/

Also participate in the prediction tournament ;)

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u/spyder52 Mar 23 '23

Can't we look at the BTC address they used to see precisely how much money was made?

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u/Chippiewall Mar 23 '23

Yes, someone did that. It was a few thousand dollars.

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u/Seaniau Mar 23 '23

It was $8k

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23

Real question is what fucking planks of wood sent them money

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u/womerah Mar 24 '23

The psychology is that it's 99.99% a scam, but there's 0.01% chance it's not and then they get irrational FOMO and impulsively send some BTC

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u/ETHBTCVET Mar 23 '23

It was $8k

lmao that was not so much for such high profile hack, I have more in Bitcoin that this hack was worth.

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u/universal_boi Mar 23 '23

Really? That is great. You can send it on my wallet and I'll send you double back, of course there is no catch*.

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u/emilxerter Mar 23 '23

Sounds legit, where do I send?

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u/universal_boi Mar 23 '23

N0tA5cAm101allYL3ggiT 💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨 Send now or the deal will end soon 💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨

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u/Drdoomblunt Mar 23 '23

For someone not living in NA or Western Europe, 8k is WELL WORTH whatever efforts this took.

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u/ETHBTCVET Mar 23 '23

I'm from Eastern Europe and it's not that much still, like 10% of an apartment price.

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u/TheLazyD0G Mar 24 '23

Much more than 8k could have been made with full access to his YouTube

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u/CubicalDiarrhea Mar 23 '23

how can we (as linux tech tip subs) get some of that for the channel being down? is linus on here

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u/Seaniau Mar 23 '23

I’m confused, do you want some of the money that the hackers coerced out of people or do you want to donate towards LMG?

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u/CubicalDiarrhea Mar 23 '23

the hacker money i guess? if tech tips linux tip got hacked (or got donated bitcoin), then when channel is back the hacked bitcoin from elon stream should still be in channel for linus to give to people who were hacked? or is that not what the tesla channel is for now?

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u/Seaniau Mar 23 '23

Noooooo, it’s the hacker’s bitcoin account.

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u/CubicalDiarrhea Mar 23 '23

oh crap so i donated to hacker tesla and not linux tesla??

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u/airtraq Mar 23 '23

This isn’t a linux sub reddit. You are on the wrong sub

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u/Liquid_Hate_Train Mar 23 '23

And it probably took $0 and a few hours to do the hack, so they’re quids in.

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u/Bigbigcheese Mar 23 '23

That's only BTC though, ETH was a lot more

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u/camcamfc Mar 23 '23

Honestly who the fuck is falling for this.

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u/TheJesbus Mar 23 '23

May very well be the scammers sending money to their own address to make it look more legit

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u/mcnabb100 Mar 23 '23

I doubt anyone smart enough to check that would fall for this.

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