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The Linus Tech Tips YouTube hack is the latest in a line of crypto scam breaches

Summary by Ground News

The main Linus Tech Tips channel was breached earlier this morning, with several live videos broadcast before the hacker started making old private videos public. Other Linus Media Group YouTube channels, including Techquickie and TechLinked, have also been breached and given new names focused on Tesla. This is just the latest in a series of breaches that have occurred over the past year, generally designed to promote livestreams that push viewers to amateur-looking crypto sites.

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The Verge

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The Linus Tech Tips YouTube hack is the latest in a line of crypto scam breaches

Another day and another YouTube crypto scam livestream. This time, Linus Tech Tips has been hacked to rename the channel and stream scams.

3 years ago·United States

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Gizmodo

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Linus Tech Tips YouTube Channel Is Down After Crypto Scammer Hack

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3 years ago·United States

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Techmeme

The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked on Thursday and posted videos for crypto scams to its 15.3M subscribers, the latest crypto scam breach on YouTube

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3 years ago·California, United States

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Tom's Hardware

Linus Tech Tips YouTube Channel Hacked to Promote Crypto Scams

Linus Tech Tips was hacked earlier today, with channel names and branding messed up, and video promoting crypto scams published. Affected LTT channels are currently all offline.

3 years ago

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GameRevolution

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3 years ago

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stadt-bremerhaven.de

Linus Tech Tips: YouTube channel hijacked, crypto scam on air

The Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel has a whopping 15.3 million subscribers. You probably have to keep your fingers crossed for the team behind it now that no...

3 years ago

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