Insane stuff going on right now; multiple channels owned by Linus Media Group have been hacked and are running livestreams promoting crypto scams.
LinusTechTips has already been terminated by YouTube. Was running multiple scam streams. Screenshot from @cequallium
Techquickie has been hacked and is still up on YouTube as “Tesla” and running scam streams.
TechLinked is also hacked running scam streams and still up as “Tesla” too and has had all of its videos removed/privated by the hackers.
Never thought I’d see something like this in real time. Crazy to see it happen to LMG of all people too. Shows just how bad hacked YouTube accounts are getting. If anyone is able to report the channels if they’re still up and running scams then please do so!
Update: after almost 2 hours all of the accounts are now terminated. Linus has said on Floatplane that LMG is in contact with Google/YouTube and working to get things fixed and secured soon. All the compromised channels should be reinstated with all their content and subscribers eventually.
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Holy crap dude - that's insane. Hopefully things are rectified from enough.
Hopefully the channels will be back soon, at least according to Linus they’re working with YouTube to reinstate everything that was terminated/hacked. Was wild to watch this in real time myself for the first time and especially on such a huge veteran channel.
About 18.34 million subscribers and 10+ years worth or content and work gone in the end. Though the channels should all be reinstated soon with all the content and subs at some point soon.
